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2 Chronicles 27
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
1Jotham 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.
1Joatham 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.
2He 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.
2And 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.
3He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.
3He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
4In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.
4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.
5He 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.
5He 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.
6So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.
6And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed before the Lord his God.
7Now 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.
7Now 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.