14:027:003 He built the high gate of the house of
the lord, and on the
wall
of Ophel he built much.
14:027:004 Moreover he built cities in the mountains
of Judah, and in the
forests
he built castles and towers.
14:027:005 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.
14:027:006 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared
his ways before
the
lord his God.
14:027:007 Now 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.
14:027:008 He was five and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and
reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem.
14:027:009 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the
city
of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
14:028:001 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began
to reign, and he
reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that
which
was
right in the sight of the lord, like David his
father:
14:028:002 For he walked in the ways of the kings
of Israel, and made
also
molten images for Baalim.
14:028:003 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley
of the son of Hinnom,
and
burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations
of
the
heathen whom the lord had cast out before the
children of
Israel.
14:028:004 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in
the high places, and
on
the hills, and under every green tree.
14:028:005 Wherefore the lord his God delivered
him into the hand of the
king
of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great
multitude
of them captives, and brought them to Damascus.
And
he
was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel,
who
smote
him with a great slaughter.
14:028:006 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah
an hundred and
twenty
thousand in one day, which were all valiant men;
because
they had forsaken the lord God of their fathers.
14:028:007 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew
Maaseiah the king’s
son,
and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah
that
was
next to the king.
14:028:008 And the children of Israel carried away
captive of their
brethren
two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and
took
also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil
to
Samaria.


