“Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.”
Cross references: : 2 Kings 15:33
“And 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 temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.”
To wit, to offer incense against the word of God, which thing is spoken in the commendation of Jotham. They were not clean purged from idolatry.
“He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. Ophel: or, the tower”
Which was sixscore cubits high, and was for the height called Ophel: it was at the East gate, and mention is made of it, 2 Chron. 3:4 .
“So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God. prepared: or, established”
He showeth that all prosperity cometh of God, who never faileth when we put our trust in him.