¹Jotham was twenty-five years old when he started to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for sixteen years. And the name of his mother was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. ²And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like everything which Uzziah his father did, except that he did not go to the temple of the Lord. And the people were still acting in a corrupt way. ³He built the upper gate to the house of the Lord, and at the wall of the Ophel he built profusely. ⁴And he built the cities in the mountain ranges of Judah, and in the woods he built fortresses and towers. ⁵And he fought against the king of the Ammonites, and he prevailed over them, and the Ammonites gave him one hundred talents of silver and ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley in that year. That is what the Ammonites remitted to him, also in the second year and the third. ⁶And Jotham gained strength, for he established his ways before the Lord his God. ⁷And as for the rest of the exploits of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, they are to be seen written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. ⁸He was twenty-five years old when he started to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁹And Jotham lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.