King Jotham
Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. 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. 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. So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God. Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and high ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.-2 Chronicles 27:1-9/the complete chapter***King Amaziah was the 8th king to rule Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land. Uzziah (Azariah) was born to Amaziah and Jecholiah. Amaziah was murdered when Uzziah was 16 years old, and the Israelites appointed Uzziah to reign as king. During his 52-year reign in Jerusalem, the royal city, Uzziah built towers in Judah, and cities in Philistine territories, and dug wells, established farmlands, recaptured and restrengthened Eloth (Elath), and strengthened the army, and went with his forces to the battlefields, gathered weapons, had devices of weaponry made and placed in Judah, and received offerings of tribute from the Ammonites. Yet, Uzziah did not destroy the high places, the elevated sites of worship that were established during the reigns of other kings, including kings who reigned before Joshua led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the Promised Land. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal the commands that the Lord God gave Moses for the Israelites, including commands about high places in the Promised Land and commands about the duties of the priests and burning incense. Uzziah entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense. Azariah the priest and 80 priests with Azariah stopped Uzziah's actions. The Lord God struck Uzziah with leprosy and the priests rushed Uzziah out of the temple. Afterwards, Uzziah lived with leprosy in a place separate from the royal palace. Jotham, the son born to Uzziah and Jerushah, was the 10th king to rule Judah. Extensive building projects occurred throughout Judah during Jotham's 16-year reign, and Jotham received substantial funds from the Ammonites. Jotham did not enter the temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning incense upon the altar, and did not destroy the high places. Over 700 years after Jotham's son Ahaz became the 11th king to rule Judah, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah, the tribe of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
Reference Scripture: Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.-Genesis 19:36...And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.-Genesis 19:38
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