Jotham Reigns in Judah
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In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, x Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
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He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
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And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD; he did y according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
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z However the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. a He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.
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Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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In those days the LORD began to send b Rezin king of Syria and c Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
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So Jotham rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David his father. Then Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 27:1
Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
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Cross References
2 Kings 15:3
And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
2 Kings 15:4
Except that the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
2 Chronicles 26:4
And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
2 Chronicles 26:5
He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.
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Cross References
2 Kings 15:4
Except that the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 23:20
Then he took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the LORD; and they went through the Upper Gate to the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.
2 Chronicles 27:3
He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel.
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Cross References
2 Kings 16:5 - 9
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
Isaiah 7:1 - 17
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it.
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Cross References
2 Kings 15:26
Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 15:27
In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
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