1 Tinha Jotão vinte e cinco anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezesseis anos em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Jerusa, filha de Zadoque.

2 Ele fez o que era reto aos olhos de Jeová, conforme tudo o que tinha feito seu pai Uzias; todavia não entrou no templo de Jeová. O povo ainda se corrompia.

3 Ele edificou a porta superior da casa de Jeová, e mandou fazer muitas obras sobre o muro de Ofel.

4 Também edificou cidades na região montanhosa de Judá, e nos bosques edificou castelos e torres.

5 Ele também fez guerra contra o rei dos filhos de Amom, e os venceu. No mesmo ano os filhos de Amom deram-lhe cem talentos de prata, dez mil coros de trigo, e dez mil de cevada. Isso lhe trouxeram os filhos de Amom também no segundo ano, e no terceiro.

6 Tornou-se Jotão poderoso, porque ordenou os seus caminhos perante Jeová, seu Deus.

7 Ora o resto 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 quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezesseis anos em Jerusalém.

9 Adormeceu Jotão com seus pais, e sepultaram-no na cidade de Davi. Em lugar dele reinou seu filho Acaz.

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.