1 Jotam var tjuefem år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte i Jerusalem i seksten år. Hans mor het Jerusa og var datter av Sadok.

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 Han gjorde det som var rett i Herrens øyne, slik som sin far Ussia hadde gjort, men han gikk ikke inn i Herrens tempel. Folket fortsatte imidlertid i sine onde veier.

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 Han satte opp den øvre porten i Herrens hus og bygde mye på muren i Ofel.

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

4 I tillegg bygde han byer i Juda-fjellene, og sterke bygninger og tårn i skogene.

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

5 Han førte krig mot ammonittenes konge og beseiret dem. Det året ga ammonittene ham hundre talenter sølv, ti tusen mål hvete og ti tusen mål bygg. Det samme ga ammonittene ham det andre og tredje året.

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 Jotam ble dermed sterk, for i alle sine veier gjorde han Herren til sin veileder.

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

7 Resten av Jotams gjerninger, alle hans kriger og hans veier er nedskrevet i boken om kongene i Israel og Juda.

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

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

9 Jotam gikk til hvile hos sine fedre, og de gravla ham i Davids by. Ahaz, hans sønn, ble konge etter ham.

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.