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 Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa the daughter of Sadoc.2 And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all that Ozias his father had done, only that he entered not into the temple of the Lord, and the people still transgressed.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 Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.5 Ho fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame them, and the children of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many measures of barley: so much did the children of Ammon give him in the second and third year.6 And Joatham was strengthened, be- cause he had his way directed before the Lord his God.7 Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his works, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.9 And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.