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2 Chronicles 27

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

Jotham king of Judah

1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. 2 And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Uzziah his father had done, except that he did not enter the temple of Yahweh. And the people still acted corruptly. 3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and he built much on the wall of Ophel. 4 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the wooded areas he built fortresses and towers. 5 He also fought with the king of the children of Ammon and prevailed over them. And the children of Ammon gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The children of Ammon paid him this also in the second year and in the third. 6 So Jotham became strong, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his Elohim.

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 twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. 9 And Jotham lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

Notes

  • 27:2 Jotham did not repeat the deed that brought his father down: he did not enter the temple of Yahweh to do the priests' work (26:16-18). Yet "the people still acted corruptly." Kings says that the high places were not removed (2 Kings 15:35), and Isaiah, Hosea and Micah, who prophesied in his days (Isaiah 1:1; Hosea 1:1; Micah 1:1), rebuke a people that had turned from Yahweh.
  • 27:3 Ophel (literally "swelling" or "hill") is the raised ground between the City of David and the temple mount. Manasseh later enclosed it and raised its wall very high (33:14), and in Nehemiah's day the temple servants lived there (Nehemiah 3:26).
  • 27:5 The tribute was heavy. A talent was a heavy weight, some thirty-four kilograms, so a hundred talents of silver weighed over three tonnes; a cor was a large dry measure, often estimated at about two hundred and twenty liters, though estimates vary. The text says the Ammonites paid for three years and does not say what happened after that.
  • 27:8 This verse repeats verse 1 almost word for word. It may round off the account of Jotham's reign, or it may have come in through copying; the text gives no reason.

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