2 Krønikebok 27

1 Fem og tjuge år gamall var Jotam då han vart konge, og sekstan år styrde han i Jerusalem. Mor hans heitte Jerusa Sadoksdotter.

Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2 Han gjorde det som rett var i Herrens augo, plent som Uzzia, far hans, hadde gjort, so nær som at han ikkje gjekk inn i Herrens hus. Men folket heldt ved og gjorde det som vondt var.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: however, he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

3 Han bygde den øvre porten i Herrens hus, og bygde dessutan mykje på Ofelmuren.

He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

4 Han bygde upp byar i Judafjelli og borger og tårn i skogarne.

Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

5 Han hadde krig med kongen yver Ammons-borni og vann yver deim, so at Ammons-borni svara skatt til honom i det året, tvo hundrad og femti våger sylv, tretti tusund tunnar kveite og tretti tusund tunnor bygg; det same svara Ammons-borni honom året etter og det tridje året med.

He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay to him, both the second year, and the third.

6 Soleis vart Jotam megtig, av di han stødt førde si livsferd for Herren, sin Gud.

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

7 Det som elles er å fortelja um Jotam, um alle krigarne hans og um alle fyretaki hans, er uppskrive i Israels og Judas kongebok.

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 Fem og tjuge år var han då han vart konge, og sekstan år styrde han i Jerusalem.

He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

9 So lagde Jotam seg til kvile hjå federne sine, og dei gravlagde honom i Davidsbyen, og Ahaz, son hans, vart konge i staden hans.

And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.