27 ¹ Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. 27 ² And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his father Uzziah had done - only he did not invade the temple of Yahweh. But the people still followed corrupt practices. 27 ³ He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and did much building on the wall of Ophel. 27 ⁴ Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills. 27 ⁵ He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years. 27 ⁶ So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God. 27 ⁷ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 27 ⁸ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. 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.