New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)

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The Second of Chronicles, 27

1 Twenty-five years old was Joʹtham when he began to reign, and for sixteen years he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Je·ruʹshah the daughter of Zaʹdok.

2 And he kept doing what was right in Jehovah’s eyes, according to all that Uz·ziʹah*1 his father had done. Only he did not invade the temple of Jehovah. However, the people were yet acting ruinously.

  1. See 26:1 ftn.

3 He himself built the upper gate of Jehovah’s house, and on the wall of Oʹphel he did a great deal of building.

4 And cities he built in the mountainous region of Judah, and in the woodlands he built fortified places and towers.

5 And he himself warred against the king of the sons of Amʹmon and eventually proved stronger than they were, so that the sons of Amʹmon gave him in that year a hundred silver talents*1 and ten thousand cor*2 measures of wheat and ten thousand of barley. This was what the sons of Amʹmon paid to him, also in the second year and the third.

  1. See App 8A.

  2. A cor equaled 220 L (200 dry qt).

6 So Joʹtham kept strengthening himself, for he prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.

7 As for the rest of the affairs of Joʹtham and all his wars and his ways, there they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and of Judah.

8 Twenty-five years old he happened to be when he began to reign, and for sixteen years he reigned in Jerusalem.

9 Finally Joʹtham lay down with his forefathers, and they buried him in the City of David. And Aʹhaz his son began to reign in place of him.