fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his place. 027:001 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. 027:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly. 027:003 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. 027:004 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. 027:005 He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render to him, in the second year also, and in the third. 027:006 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God. 027:007 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. 027:008 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. 027:009 Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place. 028:001 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his father; 028:002 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baals. 028:003 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. 028:004 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. 028:005 Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they struck him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter. 028:006 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. 028:007 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.