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My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

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.

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.

And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king"s army was Joab.

And Ahithophel was the king"s counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king"s companion:

Also Jonathan David"s uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king"s sons:

And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David"s.

Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:

And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:

And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:

And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:

And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

And over the king"s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.

Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:

Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:

Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:

Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: