3He built the upper gate of the temple of the LORD, and built much on the wall of Ophel 4He also built cities in the mountains of Judah, and fortresses and towers in the forests. 5He also fought with the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites also paid him that much in the second, and third year. 6So Jotham grew strong because he directed his ways before the LORD, his God.

7Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, all his wars, and his ways, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. 8He was twenty-five 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.