1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also 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 Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly. 3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. 4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
5 ¶ He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third. 6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
7 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9 ¶ And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
Mambo Jothamu we Juda
(2 Bomambo 15:32-38)1 Jothamu wakatangisa busa ali makole ali makumi mabili ana makole ali mashanu (25) ngono wakabusa makole ali gumi lina makole ali tathatu (16) mu Jerusalema. Zina la mmeyabe lakabe lili Jerusha nkololokadzi wa Zadoki. 2 Wakathama ndulamo mbeli kwa Yahwe, koga sekwakathama tate babe Uziya, koga iye kasingine mu Ng'umba ya Yahwe. Bathu ibo bakadwilila nge zila dzabo dze kutjinya. 3 Jothamu wakabaka Nkoba upezhugwi we Ng'umba ya Yahwe ngono kashinga nshingo usinshoma emusa makuma ku Ofele. 4 Mu matombo e Juda kabaka mizi mikulu ngono ku zwishaka kabaka matizhilo ne thungamakole. 5 Jothamu kagwa na mambo we Baamoni ngono kabakunda. Ngono mu gole ilelo Baamoni bakanlipa talenta dze siliva dzili zana ne dzitani dzili tjiwulu (1 000) tje masaka e mathunde ne dzitani dzili tjiwulu (1 000) tje mathunde e bhali. Baamoni bakalipa ngo fanana kwe gole linotobela nenge le butatu. 6 Jothamu kasima kwazo ngobe wakabe egalabgwe Yahwe Ndzimu uwe. 7 Mimwe mishingo ye mbuso wa Jothamu ne ngwa dzaakagwa ne zwimwe zwaakathama zwakakwagwa mu Thawu dza Bomambo be Iziraela ne Juda. 8 Jothamu wakabe ali makole ali makumi mabili ana mashanu (25) paakabe etangisa bumambo ngono kabusa mu Jerusalema makole ali gumi lina makole ali tathatu (16). 9 Jothamu kafa ngono kabinganyiwa ku nzi nkulu wa Dafite. Ngono Ahazi nkololo uwe kagala thaka kube mambo.