2 Chronicles 27:8
Verse 8 of 9. The 27th of 36 chapters in 2 Chronicles, in History.
4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
5He 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.
6So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
7Now 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.
8He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 27:8 in the World English Bible
He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.Read 2 Chronicles 27:8 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 27:8
He died when he was but forty-one years of age (v. 8); but his wars and his ways, his wars abroad and his ways at home, were so glorious that they were recorded in the book of the kings of Israel, as well as of the kings of Judah, v. 7.
Read Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 27:1–9: The Reign of Jotham. (b. c. 758.)
Pray 2 Chronicles 27:8 with someone reading it aloud.
Start praying with Pray.comKing James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.