2 Chronicles 27
1JOATHAM was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jerusa. She was a daughter of Sadok.
2And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Ozias had done; but he did not go into the temple of the Lord. Though the people were still corrupt,
3he built the high gate of the house of the Lord; and on the wall Opel he built much.
4On Mount Juda and in the forest, he also built castles and towers.
5He fought the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against him; so that the Ammonites gave him yearly, a hundred talents of silver and ten thousand cores of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. These the king of the Ammonites brought him yearly, during the first, second and third year.
6Joatham prevailed because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
7Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and his wars and his doings, behold they are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
8And he reigned twenty-five years, and for sixteen years he reigned in Jerusalem.
9And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.