Jotham Reigns in Judah
(2 Kings 15:32–38)
Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother’s name was Jerushah 1daughter of Zadok. 1Ch 3:122Ki 15:32-38Hos 1:1Isa 1:1Mat 1:9Mic 1:1 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah 2had done. In addition, he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still behaved corruptly. 2Ki 15:34-352Ch 26:16-212Ch 26:4Act 5:13Psa 119:120
Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he worked extensively on the wall at the hill of Ophel. 2Ch 33:14Neh 3:26-272Ch 23:20Jer 20:2 He also built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests. 2Ch 11:5-102Ch 14:72Ch 26:9-10Jos 14:12-13Luk 1:39
Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, 3 ten thousand cors of wheat, 4 and ten thousand cors of barley. 5 They paid him the same in the second and third years. 2Ch 20:12Sa 10:1-14Jdg 11:4-33Jer 49:1-6 So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God. 2Ch 26:52Ch 19:3
As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with all his wars and his ways, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 2Ch 20:342Ch 26:22-232Ch 32:32-332Ki 15:36 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. 2Ch 27:1 And Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place. 2Ki 15:38