1 Joatão tinha a idade de vinte e cinco anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou durante dezesseis anos em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Jerusa, filha de Sadoc.2 Fez o bem aos olhos do Senhor, e seguiu as pegadas de seu pai Ozias, exceto que não penetrou no templo do Senhor. Mas o povo continuava a se corromper.3 Foi Joatão quem construiu a porta superior do templo do Senhor, e trabalhou muito no muro de Ofel.4 Construiu cidades na montanha de Judá, fortes e torres nas matas.5 Fez guerra ao rei dos amonitas e venceu-os. Nesse ano, os amonitas pagaram-lhe um tributo de cem talentos de prata, dez mil coros de trigo, e dez mil de cevada; isso eles trouxeram também no segundo e no terceiro ano.6 Joatão tornou-se assim muito poderoso, porque ele andava com firmeza nos caminhos do Senhor, seu Deus.7 Os outros atos de Joatão, suas ações e feitos, suas guerras, tudo isso está relatado nos livros dos reis de Israel e de Judá.8 Tinha vinte e cinco anos quando começou a reinar: reinou dezesseis anos em Jerusalém.9 Joatão adormeceu entre seus pais e foi sepultado na cidade de Davi. Seu filho Acaz sucedeu-lhe no trono.

1 Twenty and five years old was Jotham when he became king, and sixteen years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Yerushah, the daughter of Zadok.2 And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, in accordance with all that his father ‘Uzziyahu had done: only he entered not into the temple of the Lord. But the people acted still corruptly.3 He it was that built the upper gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of the hill–fort he built much.4 Moreover he built cities in the mountain of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.5 And he likewise fought with the king of the sons of ‘Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of ‘Ammon gave him in that same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of ‘Ammon pay unto him again, both in the second year, and in the third.6 So Jotham became strong; because he directed his ways before the Lord his God.7 And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.8 Five and twenty years old was he when he became king, and sixteen years did he reign in Jerusalem.9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son became king in his stead.