2 Chronicles 27

1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerushah, daughter of Zadok.

[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。

2 And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; only he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people still acted corruptly.

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。

3 It was he who built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

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，

4 And he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

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。

5 And he fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. This the children of Ammon brought again to him also in the second year, and in the third.

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。

6 And Jotham became strong, for he prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.

約堂因為在上主他的天主前，時常履行正道，所以日漸強盛。

7 And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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。

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

他即位時年二十五歲，在耶路撒冷作王十六年。

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

約堂與祖先同眠，葬在達味城；他的兒子阿哈次繼位為王。