2 Crônicas 27

¹ Iotham was fiue and twentie yere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Ierushah the daughter of Zadok.

² 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 theThat is, to offer incense against the word of God, which is spoken of in the commendation of Jotham.temple of the LORD. And the people did yetThey were not completely purged from idolatry.corruptly.

³ He built the highWhich was 60 cubits high and was for the height called Ophel: it was at the east gate and mention is made of it in (2Ch_3:4).gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

⁴ Moreouer hee buylt cities in the mountaines of Iudah, and in the forests he buylt palaces and towres.

⁵ And he fought with the King of the children of Ammon, & preuailed against them; the children of Ammon gaue him the same yere an hundreth talents of siluer, and ten thousande measures of wheate, & ten thousand of barley: this did the children of Ammon giue him both in the second yeere and the third.

⁶ So Jotham became mighty,He shows that all prosperity comes from God, who never fails when we put our trust in him.because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

⁷ Concerning the rest of the acts of Iotham, & all his warres & his wayes, loe, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel, and Iudah.

⁸ He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem.

⁹ And Iotham slept with his fathers, & they buryed him in the citie of Dauid: and Ahaz his sonne reigned in his stead.