Era 7 · Two Kingdoms2 Chronicles
Jotham's Construction
"Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD"
"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."
"He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers."
The Ammonites pay a hundred talents of silver and ten thousand measures each of wheat and barley for three years. "So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God."
A seal of Jotham?
A seal ring "belonging to Jotham" was found at Ezion-geber (Tell el-Kheleifeh); whether it belonged to the king is doubtful. A bulla naming "Ahaz son of Jotham, king of Judah" is unprovenanced.
What the evidence shows
- The Ammonite tribute is only in Chronicles.
Continue the journey
Connected elsewhere in ScriptureAssyria and the Decline of Northern Israel2 Kings 15:32–38: The parallel.More from this lesson
Why this matters to the rest of Scripture
- The parallel.