2 Chronicles 27:2-6
2 Chronicles 27:2
He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; however he did not enter the temple of the Lord. But the people continued acting corruptly.
2 Chronicles 27:3
He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord, and he built the wall of Ophel extensively.
2 Chronicles 27:4
Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills.
2 Chronicles 27:5
He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them so that during that year the Ammonites gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites also paid him this amount in the second year and in the third.
2 Chronicles 27:6
So Jotham became powerful because he directed his ways before the Lord his God.