2 Chroniques 27

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

2Il 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.

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

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

5Il 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.

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

7Le 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.

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

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

1Viginti quinque annorum erat Joatham cum regnare cœpisset, et sedecim annis regnavit in Jerusalem: nomen matris ejus Jerusa filia Sadoc.

2Fecitque quod rectum erat coram Domino, juxta omnia quæ fecerat Ozias pater suus, excepto quod non est ingressus templum Domini: et adhuc populus delinquebat.

3Ipse ædificavit portam domus Domini excelsam, et in muro Ophel multa construxit.

4Urbes quoque ædificavit in montibus Juda, et in saltibus castella et turres.

5Ipse pugnavit contra regem filiorum Ammon, et vicit eos, dederuntque ei filii Ammon in tempore illo centum talenta argenti, et decem millia coros tritici, ac totidem coros hordei: hæc ei præbuerunt filii Ammon in anno secundo et tertio.

6Corroboratusque est Joatham, eo quod direxisset vias suas coram Domino Deo suo.

7Reliqua autem sermonum Joatham, et omnes pugnæ ejus et opera, scripta sunt in libro regum Israël et Juda.

8Viginti quinque annorum erat cum regnare cœpisset, et sedecim annis regnavit in Jerusalem.

9Dormivitque Joatham cum patribus suis, et sepelierunt eum in civitate David: et regnavit Achaz filius ejus pro eo.

1Joatham 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.

2And 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.

3He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.

5Ho 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.

6And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed before the Lord his God.

7Now 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.

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

9And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.