Chapter 27

1So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to the kings; for they said, He {m} [is] a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
(m) Therefore was buried apart in the same field but not in the same sepulchre with his predecessors.

2And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the {a} temple of the LORD. And the people did yet {b} corruptly.
(a) That is, to offer incense against the word of God, which is spoken of in the commendation of Jotham. (b) They were not completely purged from idolatry.

3He built the high {c} gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
(c) Which was 60 cubits high and was for the height called Ophel: it was at the east gate and mention is made of it in 2Ch 3:4.

6So Jotham became mighty, {d} because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
(d) He shows that all prosperity comes from God, who never fails when we put our trust in him.

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