Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
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Interpretation
Jotham showed great respect to the temple. If magistrates cannot do all they would, for the suppressing of vice and profaneness, let them do the more to support and advance piety and virtue.
Glossary
- Jerusalem Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Jerusalem.
- Jerusha Person
- Possession, or possessed; i. e., “by a husband”, the wife of Uzziah, and mother of king Jotham ( 2 Kings 15:33 ).
- Zadok Person
- Righteous. (1. ) A son of Ahitub, of the line of Eleazer ( 2 Sam. 8:17 ; 1 Chr. 24:3 ), high priest in the time of David ( 2 Sam. 20:25 ) and Solomon ( 1 Kings 4:4 ).