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Jotham built the upper gate of the house of the Lord, and he supervised the extensive construction on the wall of Ophel.[a] He also built towns in the hill country of Judah as well as forts and towers in the wooded areas.

Later Jotham went to war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. As a result, the Ammonites had to give him one hundred talents of silver, together with ten thousand kors of wheat and ten thousand kors of barley. The Ammonites also paid him the same amount in the second and third year afterward.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 27:3 Ophel: the southern spur of the temple mount.