2 Chronicles · Brenton's English Septuagint
2 Chronicles 27 Brenton's English Septuagint
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- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
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.
1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
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.
2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Uzziah had done. However he didn’t enter into Yahweh’s temple. The people still acted corruptly.
3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and he built much in the wall of Opel.
3 He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house, and he built much on the wall of Ophel.
4 In the mountain of Juda, and in the woods, [he built] both dwelling-places and towers.
4 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers.
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.
5 He also fought with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. The children of Ammon also gave that much to him in the second year, and in the third.
6 Joatham grew strong, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.
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.
7 Now 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. 8 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9 And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.
9 Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
Cross references (8)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Chronicles 3:12; Hosea 1:1; Micah 1:1; Matthew 1:9; 2 Kings 15:32–38
- 2 2 Kings 15:34–35; 2 Chronicles 26:16–21; Acts 5:13; 2 Chronicles 26:4; Psalm 119:120
- 3 2 Chronicles 33:14; Nehemiah 3:26–27; 2 Chronicles 23:20; Jeremiah 20:2
- 4 2 Chronicles 11:5–10; Luke 1:39; Joshua 14:12–13; 2 Chronicles 14:7; 2 Chronicles 26:9–10
- 5 Jeremiah 49:1–6; 2 Samuel 10:1–14; Judges 11:4–33; 2 Chronicles 20:1
- 6 2 Chronicles 26:5; 2 Chronicles 19:3
- 7 2 Chronicles 26:22–23; 2 Kings 15:36; 2 Chronicles 20:34; 2 Chronicles 32:32–33
- 9 2 Kings 15:38
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