1 Jotham avait vingt-cinq ans lorsqu'il devint roi, et il régna seize ans à Jérusalem. Sa mère s'appelait Jeruscha, fille de Tsadok.

2 Il fit ce qui est droit aux yeux de l'Eternel, entièrement comme avait fait Ozias, son père. Seulement, il n'entra point dans le temple de l'Eternel. Toutefois, le peuple se corrompait encore.

3 Jotham bâtit la porte supérieure de la maison de l'Eternel, et il fit beaucoup de constructions sur les murs de la colline.

4 Il bâtit des villes dans la montagne de Juda, et des châteaux et des tours dans les bois.

5 Il fut en guerre avec le roi des fils d'Ammon, et il l'emporta sur eux. Les fils d'Ammon lui donnèrent cette année-là cent talents d'argent, dix mille cors de froment, et dix mille d'orge; et ils lui en payèrent autant la seconde année et la troisième.

6 Jotham devint puissant, parce qu'il affermit ses voies devant l'Eternel, son Dieu.

7 Le reste des actions de Jotham, toutes ses guerres, et tout ce qu'il a fait, cela est écrit dans le livre des rois d'Israël et de Juda.

8 Il avait vingt-cinq ans lorsqu'il devint roi, et il régna seize ans à Jérusalem.

9 Jotham se coucha avec ses pères, et on l'enterra dans la ville de David. Et Achaz, son fils, régna à sa place.

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.