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

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.

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. Og folket handlet fortsatt korrupt.

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

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

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

I tillegg bygde han byer i Juda-fjellene, og i skogene bygde han festninger og tårn.

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

Han kjempet også mot ammonittenes konge og vant over dem. Ammonittenes barn ga ham samme år hundre talenter sølv, ti tusen kor hvetemål og ti tusen byggmål. Så mye ga ammonittene ham også det andre året og det tredje.

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 unto him, both the second year, and the third.

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

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD 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, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

Han var tjuefem år gammel da han begynte å regjere, og regjerte i seksten år i Jerusalem.

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

Og Jotam ble gravlagt med sine fedre, og de begravde ham i Davids by. Ahaz, hans sønn, ble konge i hans sted.

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