Jotāma valdīšana
(2Ķēn 15:32–38)1 Jotāms sāka valdīt divdesmit piecu gadu vecumā, viņš valdīja Jeruzālemē sešpadsmit gadus. Viņa mātes vārds bija Jerūša, Cādoka meita. 2 Viņš darīja to, kas tīkams Kungam, kā bija darījis viņa tēvs Uzijāhu, bet viņš negāja Kunga svētnīcā. Bet tauta vēl aizvien bija atkritusi. 3 Viņš uzcēla Kunga nama Augšējos vārtus un daudzas celtnes pie Ofela mūra. 4 Jūdas kalnos viņš cēla pilsētas, bet meža pakalnos viņš cēla cietokšņus un torņus. 5 Viņš karoja ar amoniešu ķēniņu un pieveica to, tāpēc amonieši togad viņam deva tūkstoš sudraba gabalus un desmittūkstoš koras kviešu, tikpat daudz amonieši viņam pienesa arī nākamajā un aiznākamajā gadā. 6 Jotāms kļuva varens, jo viņa gaitas ritēja Kunga, viņa Dieva, priekšā.
7 Pārējie Jotāma darbi, visi viņa kari un viņa gaitas – redzi, tie ir aprakstīti Israēla un Jūdas ķēniņu grāmatā! 8 Kad viņš sāka valdīt, viņam bija divdesmit pieci gadi, un viņš valdīja Jeruzālemē sešpadsmit gadus. 9 Jotāms apgūlās pie tēviem, un viņu apbedīja Dāvida pilsētā. Pēc tam sāka valdīt viņa dēls Āhāzs.
1 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 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. 3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. 4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
5 ¶ 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. 6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
7 ¶ 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. 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9 ¶ And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
