UNROLL
Dawn over Jerusalem's ridge: a long new stretch of plain dressed-stone wall climbs the hill of Ophel toward the temple hill, a few wooden scaffolding poles at its unfinished end; small and far at the top, the long, plain, flat-roofed temple with its two bronze pillars; a calm, pale, empty sky above.

The Book of

2 Chronicles 27

A king who did right, built, and stayed out of the holy place. The people did not follow.

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In this chapter

Where we are

  1. 1SolomonWisdom asked at Gibeon
  2. 2–5The templeBuilt on Mount Moriah
  3. 6–7DedicationIf My people humble themselves
  4. 8–9Solomon's gloryThe queen of Sheba
  5. 10–16DivisionRehoboam to Asa
  6. 17–20JehoshaphatThe battle is God's
  7. 21–24Dark yearsJehoram to Joash
  8. 25–28Proud kingsAmaziah to AhazChapter 27
  9. 29–32HezekiahDoors opened, Passover kept
  10. 33–35Manasseh to JosiahMercy and the Book found
  11. 36Exile and returnMay he go up

Jotham Reigns in Judah

Judah

Jotham of Judah · 16 years

  1. Twenty-five, and sixteen years

    Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years.

  2. His mother Jerushah, Zadok’s daughter

    His mother’s name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

  3. did right

    Right, as Uzziah had done

    And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.

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In addition, he did not enter the temple of the LORD.

But the people still behaved corruptly.

2 Chronicles 27:2

Question

Quick question

Jotham “did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.” But in one thing he did not copy his father.

What did Jotham not do that his father Uzziah had done?

They paid him the same in the second and third years.

So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

2 Chronicles 27:6

Judah

Jotham’s end

  1. Book of the Kings

    His wars and ways recorded

    As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with all his wars and his ways, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

  2. Twenty-five, and sixteen years

    He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years.

  3. Buried in the City of David

    And Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

  4. son of Jotham

    Ahaz reigns

    And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.

Reflect

He ordered his ways

Jotham did not make a show of his faith. He set his ways in order before the LORD and kept his place, yet the people around him still went their own way. Where does your life need ordering before God this week: your time, your words, your money? Write down one thing to set right, whatever others do.

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So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

2 Chronicles 27:6

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