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Jotham in Wikipedia

Jotham (Hebrew: יוֹתָם, "God is perfect" or "God is complete"; Greek: Ιωαθαμ; Latin: Joatham) is the name of two people of the Hebrew Bible: 1. The youngest of Gideon's seventy sons. He escaped when the rest were put to death by the order of Abimelech (Judges 9:5). When "the citizens of Shechem and the whole house of Millo" were gathered toget...

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Jotham Scripture - 2 Chronicles 26:21

And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, [being] a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son [was] over the king's house, judging the people of the land....

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Jotham Scripture - 1 Chronicles 5:17

All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel....

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Jotham Scripture - Isaiah 7:1

And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it....

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Jotham in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

jo'-tham (yotham, "Yahweh is perfect"; Ioatham): (1) The youngest son of Gideon-Jerubbaal, the sole survivor of the massacre of his seventy brothers by Abimelech (Jdg 9:5), and (by Jdg 8:22) the legitimate ruler of Shechem after their death. Recognizing, however, that he is powerless to assert his claim, Jotham delivers from the summit of Geri...

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Jotham in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Son of Gideon Jud 9:5,57 Rebukes the Shechemites with the parable about the trees Jud 9:7-21 -2. Son of Azariah, king of Judah 2Ki 15:5-7,32,38; 1Ch 3:12; 2Ch 26:21-23; 27 Piety of 2Ch 27 The moral condition of Israel during his reign Ho 4 Ancestor of Jesus Mt 1:9 -3. Son of Jahdai 1Ch 2:47...

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Jotham in Hitchcock's Bible Names

the perfection of the Lord...

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Jotham in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(Jehovah is upright). 1. The youngest son of Gideon, Jud 9:5 who escaped from the massacre of his brethren. (B.C. after 1256.) His parable of the reign of the bramble is the earliest example of the kind. 2. The son of King Uzziah or Azariah and Jerushah. After administering the kingdom for some years during his father's leprosy, he succeeded...

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Jotham in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jehovah is perfect. (1.) The youngest of Gideon's seventy sons. He escaped when the rest were put to death by the order of Abimelech (Judg. 9:5). When "the citizens of Shechem and the whole house of Millo" were gathered together "by the plain of the pillar" (i.e., the stone set up by Joshua, 24:26; comp. Gen. 35:4) "that was in Shechem, t...

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