06.08.2015 Old Testament: 2Ch 27.1–6

To read the Bible in a year, read Second Chronicles 26–28 on June 8, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

Do you want to be a mighty man or woman of God? No doubt you do, that is one reason why you read and meditate upon the Scriptures delivered by the Holy Spirit of God! Notice what the Bible says about King Jotham of Judah,

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done (although he did not enter the temple of the Lord). But still the people acted corruptly. He built the Upper Gate of the house of the Lord, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers. He also fought with the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. And the people of Ammon gave him in that year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The people of Ammon paid this to him in the second and third years also. So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God (2 Chronicles 27.1–6). 

Jotham did what was right in the sight of the Lord and Jotham prepared his way before the Lord God. That made the king mighty, and that will make you mighty.