³⁵ Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.^(A)

²⁰ And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, marching through the upper gate to the king’s house. They set the king on the royal throne.^(A)

³ Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.^(A)

¹² Was it not this same Hezekiah who took away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘Before one altar you shall worship, and upon it you shall make your offerings’?^(A)

³ He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord and did extensive building on the wall of Ophel.^{(A) 4} Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah and forts and towers on the wooded hills. ⁵ He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. The Ammonites gave him that year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years. ⁶ So Jotham strengthened himself because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God.^{(B) 7} Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all his wars and his ways are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.^{(C) 8} He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.^{(D) 9} Jotham slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David, and his son Ahaz succeeded him.

⁴ He removed the high places, broke down the pillars, and cut down the sacred pole.^[a] He broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it; it was called Nehushtan.^(A)

⁴ Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.^(A)