³⁵ However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.

³ However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

²⁰ He took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Yahweh: and they came through the upper gate to the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.

⁴ However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

⁴ He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

³ He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

⁴ Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

⁵ 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.

⁶ So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.

⁷ 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.

⁸ He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

⁹ Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

¹² Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and on it shall you burn incense?