The Holy Bible – Knox Translation
The Second Book of Paralipomena
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Chapter 27
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This Joatham was twenty-five years old when he came to the throne, and his reign at Jerusalem lasted sixteen years; his mother’s name was Jerusa, daughter of Sadoc.
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He obeyed the Lord’s will, imitating the piety of Ozias, but not his sacrilege; among the people, there were corrupt ways of worship still.
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He it was built the high gate that leads into the Lord’s house, and added much to the Ophel wall;
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there are walled cities, too, in the hill-country of Juda, fortresses and towers in woodland places, that are of his building.
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He gave battle to the Ammonites and defeated them; a hundred talents of silver the Ammonites must pay him, with ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many of barley, that year and in the two years that followed.
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Such greatness Joatham achieved by his obedience to the Lord’s will.
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What else he did, the battles he fought and the life he lived, may be found set down in the Record of the kings of Israel and Juda.
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So, when he had lived forty-one years, and reigned sixteen years at Jerusalem,
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Joatham was laid to rest with his fathers, with the Keep of David for his burying-place, and the throne passed to his son Achaz.