2 Chroniques 27

1 Joatham avait vingt-cinq ans lorsqu’il devint roi, et il régna seize ans à Jérusalem. Sa mère s’appelait Jérusa, fille de Sadoc.

Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa the daughter of Sadoc.

2 Il fit ce qui est droit aux yeux de Yahweh, selon tout ce qu’avait fait Ozias, son père; seulement il n’entra pas dans le temple de Yahweh; mais le peuple se corrompait encore.

And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all that Ozias his father had done, only that he entered not into the temple of the Lord, and the people still transgressed.

3 Joatham bâtit la porte supérieure de la maison de Yahweh, et fit beaucoup de constructions sur le mur d’Ophel.

He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

4 Il bâtit des villes dans la montagne de Juda, il bâtit des forts et des tours dans les bois.

Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.

5 Il fit la guerre au roi des fils d’Ammon, et il l’emporta sur eux. Les fils d’Ammon lui donnèrent cette année-là cent talents d’argent, dix mille cors de froment, et dix mille d’orge; et les fils d’Ammon lui en apportèrent autant la seconde et la troisième année.

Ho fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame them, and the children of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many measures of barley: so much did the children of Ammon give him in the second and third year.

6 Joatham augmenta sa puissance, parce qu’il avait affermi ses voies devant Yahweh, son Dieu.

And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed before the Lord his God.

7 Le reste des actes de Joatham, toutes ses guerres et tout ce qu’il a fait, voici que cela est écrit dans le livre des rois d’Israël et de Juda.

Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his works, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.

8 Il avait vingt-cinq ans lorsqu’il devint roi, et il régna seize ans à Jérusalem.

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

9 Joatham se coucha avec ses pères, et on l’enterra dans la ville de David. Achaz, son fils, régna à sa place.

And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.