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.(2 Chronicles 27:2)

He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.(2 Chronicles 27:3)

Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.(2 Chronicles 27:4)

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.

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.(2 Chronicles 27:6)

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.(2 Chronicles 27:7)

He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.(2 Chronicles 27:8)

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2 Chronicles 27:5 - Cross Reference

It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. (2 Chronicles 20:1)

And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel. (Judges 11:4)

And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead. (2 Samuel 10:1)

Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? (Jeremiah 49:1)