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Jotham

King of Judah, 758 B. C., son and successor of Uzziah, or Azariah.

He succeeded his leprous father at the age of 25 years, and reigned 16 years.

JOTUNS (yuh'töns), in Northern mythology, immense giants and magicians who had command over the powers of nature, and lived in dark caves in their kingdom of Jötunheim, from which they waged perpetual war against the Æsir, the bright gods of Valhalla. Originaly they represented the destructive forces in nature.

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