1 Jotham was twenty-five when he became king, and he ruled sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.
2 He did what was right in the LORD's eyes, just as his father Uzziah had done, except that he did not go into the LORD's temple. But the people kept on acting corruptly.
3 He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD and did extensive building on the wall of Ophel.
4 He built cities in the hills of Judah, and in the forests he built strongholds and towers.
5 He went to war against the king of the children of Ammon and defeated them. That year the children of Ammon paid him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley; and they paid him the same in the second and third years.
6 Jotham grew powerful because he kept his ways steady before the LORD his God.
7 The rest of Jotham's deeds, all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
8 He was twenty-five when he became king and ruled sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9 Jotham lay down with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Ahaz became king after him.