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2 Chronicles 27 Summary
Jotham's Righteousness Without Temple Entry
Jotham begins to reign at age twenty-five and reigns sixteen years, doing right in the LORD's sight like his father Uzziah, but significantly does not enter the LORD's temple. He builds the high gate of the house of the LORD and fortifies Ophel, constructs cities and fortresses in Judah's mountains, and defeats the Ammonites, receiving tribute from them. Jotham becomes mighty because he prepares his ways before the LORD his God. He dies and is buried in the city of David, succeeded by his son Ahaz.
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Key verses
2 Chronicles 27:2
“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.”
2 Chronicles 27:3-4
“He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.”
2 Chronicles 27:5-6
“He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.”
2 Chronicles 27:9
“And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.”
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