1 Yotam was twenty and five shanah when he began to reign, and he was king sixteen shanah in Yerushalayim. The shem immo also was Yerushah bat Tzadok.
2 And he did that which was yashar (right) in the eyes of Hashem, according to all that his av Uziyah did; howbeit he entered not into the Heikhal Hashem. And the people did corruptly still.
3 He built the upper sha'ar Beis Hashem, and on the chomat Ophel he built much.
4 Moreover he built towns in the har Yehudah, and in the forests he built fortresses and migdalim.