歷代志下 27

1 [約堂為王]約堂登極時年二十五歲，在耶路撒冷作王凡十六年；他的母親名叫耶魯沙，是匝克多的女兒。

Iotham was fiue and twentie yere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Ierushah the daughter of Zadok.

2 約堂行了上主視為正義的事，完成像他父親所作的一樣，只是沒有進入上主的聖所；但百姓仍然敗壞。

And hee did vprightly in the sight of the Lord according to all that his father Vzziah did, saue that hee entred not into the Temple of the Lord, and the people did yet corrupt their wayes.

3 他建築了上主殿宇的上門，在敖斐耳城牆上，也作了許多工程，

He buylt the hie gate of the house of the Lord, and he buylt very much on the wall of the castle.

4 在猶大山地建築了一些城池，在叢林中也建了一些營寨和堡壘。

Moreouer hee buylt cities in the mountaines of Iudah, and in the forests he buylt palaces and towres.

5 約堂與阿孟子民的君王交戰，戰勝了他們，因此阿孟子民那一年給他進貢：銀子一百「塔冷通，」小麥一萬「苛爾，」大麥一萬「苛爾。」以後第二第三年，阿孟子民仍進了這些貢物。

And he fought with the King of the children of Ammon, and preuailed against them. And the children of Ammon gaue him the same yere an hundreth talents of siluer, and ten thousande measures of wheate, and ten thousand of barley: this did the children of Ammon giue him both in the second yeere and the third.

6 約堂因為在上主他的天主前，時常履行正道，所以日漸強盛。

So Iotham became mightie because hee directed his way before the Lord his God.

7 約堂其餘的事蹟，以及他的戰績和作為，都記載在以色列和猶大列王實錄上。

Concerning the rest of the acts of Iotham, and all his warres and his wayes, loe, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel, and Iudah.

8 他即位時年二十五歲，在耶路撒冷作王十六年。

He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem.

9 約堂與祖先同眠，葬在達味城；他的兒子阿哈次繼位為王。

And Iotham slept with his fathers, and they buryed him in the citie of Dauid: and Ahaz his sonne reigned in his stead.