1 Tinha vinte e cinco anos, Jotão, quando se sentou no trono. Reinou dezasseis anos, com Jerusalém como sua capital. Sua mãe era Jerusa, filha de Zadoque. Conduziu-se rectamente ao olhos do Senhor, seguindo os passos do seu pai Uzias, com excepção daquele pecado de entrar no santuário do templo. Apesar disso, o povo continuou muito corrupto.3 Construiu a porta alta do templo, e fez obras extensas de reconstrução das muralhas da cidade, na colina onde o templo se erguia. Edificou povoações nas montanhas de Judá, erigiu fortalezas e torres fortificadas na região dos bosques.5 Foi vitorioso na guerra contra os amonitas, de tal forma que durante três anos ficou recebendo deles um tributo anual de três mil toneladas de prata, duas mil e duzentas toneladas de trigo e outro tanto de cevada. Jotão tornou-se poderoso porque foi cuidadoso em dirigir os seus passos pelos caminhos do Senhor.7 O resto da história deste monarca, incluindo as guerras que travou e outros factos, estão relatados nos Anais dos Reis de Israel e de Judá.8 Em resumo: tinha vinte e cinco anos quando começou a reinar. O seu reinado, com sede em Jerusalém, durou dezasseis anos. Quando morreu, foi enterrado na capital, e seu filho Acaz ascendeu ao trono.

1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, 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: yet, he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.4 Moreover, he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay to him, both the second year, and the third.6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, see, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.