Jotham
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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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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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 (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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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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-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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(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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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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