1 Jotão tinha vinte e cinco anos de idade quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezesseis anos em Jerusalém. O nome da sua mãe era Jerusa, filha de Zadoque.

2 Ele fez o que o Senhor aprova, tal como seu pai, mas, ao contrário deste, não entrou no templo do Senhor. O povo, contudo, prosseguiu em suas práticas corruptas.

3 Jotão reconstruiu a porta superior do templo do Senhor e fez amplos trabalhos no muro, na colina de Ofel.

4 Construiu cidades nos montes de Judá, bem como fortes e torres nas matas.

5 Jotão guerreou contra o rei dos amonitas e o derrotou. Então os amonitas pagaram-lhe três toneladas e meia de prata, dez mil barris de trigo e dez mil de cevada durante três anos seguidos.

6 Jotão tornou-se cada vez mais poderoso, pois andava firmemente segundo a vontade do Senhor, o seu Deus.

7 Os demais acontecimentos do reinado de Jotão, inclusive todas as suas guerras e as suas outras realizações, estão escritos nos registros históricos dos reis de Israel e de Judá.

8 Tinha vinte e cinco anos de idade quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezesseis anos em Jerusalém.

9 Jotão descansou com os seus antepassados e foi sepultado na cidade de Davi. Seu filho Acaz foi o seu sucessor.

1 Jotham 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.

2 He 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.

3 He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

4 In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

5 He 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.

6 So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

7 Now 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.

8 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.

9 And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.