2 Chronicles 27:6

So Jotham became powerful because he walked firmly before Yahweh his God.

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So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

In Context

5He fought also with the king of the people of Ammon and defeated them. In that same year, the people of Ammon gave him one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand measures of wheat, ten thousand measures of barley. The people of Ammon gave him the same in the second and third years.

7As for the other matters concerning Jotham, all his wars, and his ways, see, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 17:4Instead, he relied on the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, not after the behavior of Israel.

2 Chronicles 26:5He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who taught him to honor God + 26:5 The Hebrew text can be read either, to honor God , or in the fear of God or in seeing God . Scholars are divided. . As long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.

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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