1 Tinha Jotão vinte e cinco anos de idade, quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezesseis anos em Jerusalém; e era o nome de sua mãe Jerusa, filha de Zadoque.

2 E fez o que era reto aos olhos do Senhor, conforme a tudo o que fizera Uzias, seu pai, exceto que não entrou no templo do Senhor. E o povo ainda se corrompia.

3 Ele edificou a porta superior da casa do Senhor, e também edificou muitas obras sobre o muro de Ofel.

4 Também edificou cidades nas montanhas de Judá, e castelos e torres nos bosques.

5 Ele também guerreou contra o rei dos filhos de Amom, e prevaleceu sobre eles, de modo que os filhos de Amom naquele ano lhe deram cem talentos de prata, e dez mil coros de trigo, e dez mil de cevada; isto lhe trouxeram os filhos de Amom também no segundo e no terceiro ano.

6 Assim se fortificou Jotão, porque dirigiu os seus caminhos na presença do Senhor seu Deus.

7 Ora, o restante dos atos de Jotão, e todas as suas guerras e os seus caminhos, eis que estão escritos no livro dos reis de Israel e de Judá.

8 Tinha vinte e cinco anos de idade, quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezesseis anos em Jerusalém.

9 E dormiu Jotão com seus pais, e sepultaram-no na cidade de Davi; e Acaz, seu filho, reinou em seu lugar.

1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

3 He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

4 In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

5 He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.

6 So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

8 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.

9 And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.