2 Chronicles 27:5
Jotham fought with the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. The Ammonites gave him every year for three years one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley.
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4He built towns in the hill country of Judah, and fortresses and towers in the mountains and forests.
6Jotham grew powerful because he made sure what he did followed the ways of the Lord his God.
Cross References
Judges 11:4Later on, the Ammonites were at war with Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:1Then, after this, the Moabites and Ammonites, as well as some of the Meunites, came to attack Jehoshaphat.
Jeremiah 49:1This is what the Lord says about the Ammonites: Don't the Israelites have any children? Don't they have heirs to inherit their property? So why has Milcom taken over the territory belonging to the tribe of Gad? Why are his people living in their towns?
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 27:2-9
The Reign of Jotham. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the Lord . And the people did yet corruptly. 3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord , and on the wall of Ophel he built much. 4 Moreover he built cities in the… Read the whole commentary →