2 Chronicles 27
1 Joatham
was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name
was Jerusa, daughter of Sadoc.
2 And he did that which was right in
the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Ozias did: but he went
not into the temple of the Lord. And still the people corrupted themselves.
3 He built the high gate of the house
of the Lord, and he built much in the wall of Opel.
4 In the mountain of Juda, and in the
woods, he built both dwelling-places and towers.
5 He fought against the king of the
children of Ammon, and prevailed against him: and the children of Ammon gave
him even annually a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of
wheat, and ten thousand of barley. These the king of the children of Ammon
brought to him annually in the first and second and third years.
6 Joatham grew strong, because he
prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
7 And the rest of the acts of Joatham,
and his war, and his deeds, behold, they are written
in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
9 And Joatham slept with his fathers,
and was buried in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.