Jotam var tjuefem år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte seksten år i Jerusalem. Hans mors navn var Jerusja, datter av Sadok.

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.

Han gjorde det som var rett i Herrens øyne, i samsvar med alt hans far Ussia hadde gjort. Men han gikk ikke inn i Herrens tempel. Folket oppførte seg fortsatt korrumpert.

He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly.

Han bygde den øvre porten til Herrens hus, og på Ofels mur bygde han mye.

He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

Videre bygde han byer i Juda-fjellene, og i skogene bygde han borger og tårn.

Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

Han kjempet også mot ammonittenes konge og vant over dem. Ammonittene ga ham samme år hundre talenter sølv, ti tusen kor hvete og ti tusen bygg. Så mye ga ammonittene ham, også i det andre året og i det tredje.

He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render to him, in the second year also, and in the third.

Slik ble Jotam mektig, fordi han ordnet sine veier for Herren sin Gud.

So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.

Resten av Jotams gjerninger, alle hans kriger og hans veier, se, de er skrevet i boken om Israels og Judas konger.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

Han var tjuefem år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte seksten år i Jerusalem.

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

Jotam sovnet med sine fedre, og de begravde ham i Davids by. Og Ahas, hans sønn, regjerte i hans sted.

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