< Chronicles II 27 >
1 Joatham [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was] Jerusa, daughter of Sadoc.
约坦登基的时候年二十五岁,在耶路撒冷作王十六年,他母亲名叫耶路沙,是撒督的女儿。
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Ozias did: but he went not into the temple of the Lord. And still the people corrupted themselves.
约坦行耶和华眼中看为正的事,效法他父乌西雅一切所行的,只是不入耶和华的殿。百姓还行邪僻的事。
3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and he built much in the wall of Opel.
约坦建立耶和华殿的上门,在俄斐勒城上多有建造,
4 In the mountain of Juda, and in the woods, [he built] both dwelling-places and towers.
又在犹大山地建造城邑,在树林中建筑营寨和高楼。
5 He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against him: and the children of Ammon gave him even annually a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. These the king of the children of Ammon brought to him annually in the first and second and third years.
约坦与亚扪人的王打仗胜了他们,当年他们进贡银一百他连得,小麦一万歌珥,大麦一万歌珥;第二年、第三年也是这样。
6 Joatham grew strong, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
约坦在耶和华—他 神面前行正道,以致日渐强盛。
7 And the rest of the acts of Joatham, and his war, and his deeds, behold, [they are] written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
约坦其余的事和一切争战,并他的行为,都写在以色列和犹大列王记上。
9 And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.
约坦与他列祖同睡,葬在大卫城里。他儿子亚哈斯接续他作王。