2. Tarihler 27

¹Yotam yirmi beş yaşında tahta geçti ve Yeruşalim'de on altı yıl krallık yaptı; annesinin adı Sadok kızı Yerusa idi.

²Babası Ozias'ın yaptığı her şeye uygun olarak Rab'bin gözünde doğru olanı yaptı; ancak Rab'bin tapınağına girmedi ve halk hâlâ yozlaşmaya devam ediyordu.

³Rab'bin evinin yüksek kapısını o inşa etti ve Ofel surunda pek çok inşaat yaptı; ayrıca kentler inşa etti.

⁴Yahuda'nın dağlık bölgesinde ve ormanlarda hem yerleşim yerleri hem de kuleler inşa etti.

⁵Ammon oğullarının kralına karşı savaşıp ona üstün geldi; Ammon oğulları ona her yıl yüz talant gümüş, on bin kor buğday ve on bin kor arpa ödüyorlardı; Ammon oğullarının kralı bu miktarı ona birinci, ikinci ve üçüncü yılda da yıldan yıla getirdi.

⁶Yotam güçlendi, çünkü kendi yollarını Tanrısı Rab'bin önünde düzene sokup hazırlamıştı.

⁷Yotam'ın geri kalan işleri, savaşı ve bütün icraatları, işte bunlar Yahuda ve İsrail krallarının kitabında yazılıdır.

⁸Kral olduğunda yirmi beş yaşındaydı ve Yeruşalim'de on altı yıl krallık yaptı.

⁹Yotam atalarıyla birlikte uykuya daldı ve Davut'un kentinde gömüldü; yerine oğlu Ahaz kral oldu.

¹ΥΙΟΣ εἴκοσι καὶ πέντε ἐτῶν ᾿Ιωάθαμ ἐν τῷ βασιλεῦσαι αὐτὸν καὶ ἑκκαίδεκα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ ῾Ιερουσὰ θυγάτηρ Σαδώκ.

²καὶ ἐποίησε τὸ εὐθὲς ἐνώπιον Κυρίου κατὰ πάντα, ἃ ἐποίησεν ᾿Οζίας ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ’ οὐκ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν ναὸν Κυρίου, καὶ ἔτι ὁ λαὸς κατεφθείρετο.

³αὐτὸς ᾠκοδόμησε τὴν πύλην οἴκου Κυρίου τὴν ὑψηλὴν καὶ ἐν τείχει τοῦ ᾿Οφλὰ ᾠκοδόμησε πολλά· καὶ πόλεις ᾠκοδόμησεν

⁴ἐν ὄρει ᾿Ιούδα καὶ ἐν τοῖς δρυμοῖς καὶ οἰκήσεις καὶ πύργους.

⁵αὐτὸς ἐμαχέσατο πρὸς βασιλέα υἱῶν ᾿Αμμὼν καὶ κατίσχυσεν ἐπ’ αὐτόν· καὶ ἐδίδουν αὐτῷ οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Αμμὼν καὶ κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ἑκατὸν τάλαντα ἀργυρίου καὶ δέκα χιλιάδας κόρων πυροῦ καὶ κριθῶν δέκα χιλιάδας· ταῦτα ἔφερεν αὐτῷ βασιλεὺς υἱῶν ᾿Αμμὼν κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει καὶ ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ καὶ τῷ τρίτῳ.

⁶καὶ κατίσχυσεν ᾿Ιωάθαμ, ὅτι ἡτοίμασε τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐναντίον Κυρίου Θεοῦ αὐτοῦ.

⁷καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ λόγοι ᾿Ιωάθαμ καὶ ὁ πόλεμος καὶ αἱ πράξεις αὐτοῦ ἰδοὺ γεγραμμέναι ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ βασιλέων ᾿Ιούδα καὶ ᾿Ισραήλ. [8 καὶ εἴκοσι καὶ πέντε ἐτῶν ἦν βασιλεύσας, καὶ ἓξ καὶ δέκα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.]

⁹καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ᾿Ιωάθαμ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ῎Αχαζ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ’ αὐτοῦ.

¹Joatham [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.

²And 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.

³He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and he built much in the wall of Opel.

⁴In the mountain of Juda, and in the woods, [he built] both dwelling-places and towers.

⁵He 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.

⁶Joatham grew strong, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.

⁷And 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.

⁸[See Appendix . And he reigned twenty-five years, and sixteen years he reigned in Jerusalem.]

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