2 Chronicles 27:8

Five and twenty years old was he when he became king, and sixteen years did he reign in Jerusalem.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

In Context

7And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son became king in his stead.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 27:1Twenty and five years old was Jotham when he became king, and sixteen years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Yerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

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 →

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