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.

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

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

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

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

He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

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

In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

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.

He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.

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

So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

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 Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.

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

And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.