Jotham

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jotham
     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, to make Abimelech king," from one of
     the heights of Mount Gerizim he protested against their doing so
     in the earliest parable, that of the bramble-king. His words
     then spoken were prophetic. There came a recoil in the feelings
     of the people toward Abimelech, and then a terrible revenge, in
     which many were slain and the city of Shechem was destroyed by
     Abimelech (Judg. 9:45). Having delivered his warning, Jotham
     fled to Beer from the vengeance of Abimelech (9:7-21).
     
       (2.) The son and successor of Uzziah on the throne of Judah.
     As during his last years Uzziah was excluded from public life on
     account of his leprosy, his son, then twenty-five years of age,
     administered for seven years the affairs of the kingdom in his
     father's stead (2 Chr. 26:21, 23; 27:1). After his father's
     death he became sole monarch, and reigned for sixteen years
     (B.C. 759-743). He ruled in the fear of God, and his reign was
     prosperous. He was contemporary with the prophets Isaiah, Hosea,
     and Micah, by whose ministrations he profited. He was buried in
     the sepulchre of the kings, greatly lamented by the people (2
     Kings 15:38; 2 Chr. 27:7-9).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Jotham, the perfection of the Lord