27 Yotam (Jotham) was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem (Jerusalem) for sixteen years. His mother was Yerusha, daughter of the priest Tsadok. 2 He did the things that Yahweh said were good like his father Uziyah had done (except that he didn’t trespass in Yahweh’s temple). However, the people were still behaving corruptly.

3 He rebuilt the temple’s Upper Gate and extended the Ofel wall. 4 He built cities in the Yehudah (Judah) hill country, and built fortresses and towers in the forests. 5 He attacked the Amonim’ king and dominated them. Then for the next three years, the Amonim brought him three tonnes of silver, and 2,000 tonnes each of wheat and barley each year. 6 Yotam became more powerful because he’d established a pattern of obeying his god Yahweh. 7 The record of all the other things Yotam did while he was king, including all his battles, was written on the scroll ‘The kings of Yisrael (Israel) and Yehudah’. 8 He was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem for sixteen years. 9 Then (at forty-one years old), Yotam died and was buried in ‘The City of David’, and his son Ahaz replaced him as king.