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Ioatham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Ierousa, daughter of Sadok.
And he did what was right before the Lord, according to all that Ozias his father had done; only he did not enter into the temple of the Lord. And the people were still being corrupted.
He fought against the king of the sons of Ammon and prevailed over him; and the sons of Ammon gave him each year a hundred talents of silver and ten thousand kors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. These the king of Ammon brought him each year, in the first year and in the second and in the third.