Dual Panel1Jotham <03147> was twenty-five <02568> <06242> years <08141> old <01121> when he began to reign <04427>, and he reigned <04427> for sixteen <06240> <08337> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>. His mother <0517> was Jerusha <03388> the daughter <01323> of Zadok <06659>.
2He did <06213> what the Lord <03068> approved <05869> <03477>, just as <0834> his father <01> Uzziah <05818> had done <06213>. (He did not <03808>, however <07535>, have the audacity to enter <0935> the temple <01964>.) Yet the people <05971> were still <05750> sinning <07843>.
3He <01931> built <01129> the Upper <05945> Gate <08179> to the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> and did <01129> a lot <07230> of work on the wall <02346> in the area known as Ophel <06077>.
4He built <01129> cities <05892> in the hill country <02022> of Judah <03063> and fortresses <01003> and towers <04026> in the forests <02793>.
5He <01931> launched a military campaign <03898> against <05973> the king <04428> of the Ammonites <05983> <01121> and defeated <02388> them. That <01931> year <08141> the Ammonites <05983> <01121> paid <05414> him 100 <03967> talents <03603> of silver <03701>, 10,000 <0505> <06235> kors <03734> of wheat <02406>, and 10,000 <0505> <06235> kors of barley <08184>. The Ammonites <05983> <01121> also paid <07725> this <02063> same amount of annual tribute the next two <07992> <08145> years <08141>.
6Jotham <03147> grew powerful <02388> because <03588> he was determined <03559> to please the Lord <03069> his God <0430>.
7The rest <03499> of the events <01697> of Jotham’s <03147> reign, including all <03605> his military campaigns <04421> and his accomplishments <01870>, are recorded <03789> in <05921> the scroll <05612> of the kings <04428> of Israel <03478> and Judah <03063>.
8He was twenty-five <02568> <06242> years <08141> old <01121> when <01961> he began to reign <04427>, and he reigned <04427> for sixteen <06240> <08337> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>.
9Jotham <03147> passed away <01> <05973> <07901> and was buried <06912> in the City <05892> of David <01732>. His son <01121> Ahaz <0271> replaced <08478> him as king <04427>.