2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 27
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2 Chronicles 27 — Scripture text (King James Version)
was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in . His mother’s name also was , the daughter of . And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father did: howbeit he entered not into the of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly. He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and the wall of he built much. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of , and in the forests he built castles and towers. He fought also with the king of the , and prevailed against them. And the children of gave him the same year an hundred of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of pay unto him, both the second year, and the third. So became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God. Now the rest of the acts of , and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are of the kings of and . He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in . And slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of : and his son reigned in his stead.