Jotham
King of Judah · 759–742 BC
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His Reign
- Reigned
- sixteen years 2 Kings 15:33
- Began to Reign
- Five and twenty years old 2 Kings 15:33
- Began
- in Pekah’s 2nd year 2 Kings 15:32
- His Mother
- Jerusha 2 Kings 15:33
- Before Him
- Uzziah
- After Him
- Ahaz
In the Sight of the LORD
“he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD” 2 Kings 15:34
Ussher’s Years
- Reigned 759–742 BC
- “succeded his son Jotham, in the 20 year of Peka”
He judged the people while his father was a leper (2 Kings 15:5), and reigned sixteen years after Uzziah died.
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.
