2 Chronicles 27:6

Jotham faithfully obeyed Yahweh his God, and as a result he became a very powerful king.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5During the time that Jotham was the king of Judah, his army attacked and defeated the army of the Ammon people-group. Then, every year during the next three years, he required the Anmon people-group to pay to him four tons of silver, 60,000 bushels of wheat, and 60,000 bushels of barley.

7A record of everything else that Jotham did during the time that he was the king, including the wars that his army fought, is written in the scroll called ‘ the History of the Kings of Israel and Judah’.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 17:4Instead, he sought advice from the God whom his father had worshiped, and he obeyed God’s commands, and did not do the evil things that the kings of Israel continually did.

2 Chronicles 26:5He tried to please God while the priest Zechariah was living, because Zechariah taught him to revere God. As long as Uzziah tried to please God, God enabled him to be successful.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 27:2-9

The Reign of Jotham. ( b. c. 758.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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