يوثام ملك يهوذا
(2مل 15:32-38)1 وكانَ يوثامُ ابنَ خمسٍ وعِشرينَ سنَةً حينَ ملَكَ، وملَكَ ستَّ عَشْرةَ سنَةً بِأورُشليمَ، وكانَ اسمُ أمِّهِ يروشَةَ بنتَ صادوقَ. 2 وعَمِلَ ما هو قَويمٌ في نظَرِ الرّبِّ كما عَمِلَ أبوهُ، إلاَّ أنَّهُ لم يَخطَأْ كأبـيهِ بِدُخولِ هَيكلِ الرّبِّ وحَرْقِ البَخورِ على المذبَحِ. لكِنَّ الشَّعبَ استَمَرّوا بِمُمارَسةِ الفَسادِ. 3 وهوَ الّذي بَنى البابَ الأعلى لِلهيكلِ، وزادَ الكثيرَ مِنَ البِناءِ في سُورِ أورُشليمَ في المكانِ المُسَمَّى عوفَلَ. 4 كما أنَّهُ بَنى مُدُنا في جبَلِ يَهوذا وحُصونا وأبراجا في الغاباتِ. 5 وحارَبَ مَلِكَ بَني عَمُّونَ وانتصَرَ علَيهِم، فدَفَعوا إليهِ في تِلكَ السَّنةِ وفي السَّنتَينِ التَّاليتَينِ سِتَّةَ عشَرَ قِنطارَ فِضَّةٍ، وخمسينَ ألفَ قُفَّةٍ مِنَ الحِنطَةِ، وخمسينَ ألفَ قُفَّةٍ مِنَ الشَّعيرِ. 6 وتقَوَّى يوثامُ لأنَّه سلَكَ في طُرُق الرّبِّ إلهِهِ.
7 وما تَبَقَّى مِنْ أخبارِ يوثامَ وجميعِ حُروبِهِ وأعمالِهِ مُدَوَّنٌ في سِفْرِ مُلوكِ إِسرائيلَ ويَهوذا. 8 وكانَ ابنَ خمسٍ وعِشرينَ سنَةً حينَ ملَكَ، وملَكَ سِتَّ عَشْرةَ سنَةً بأورُشليمَ. 9 وماتَ يوثامُ ودُفِنَ معَ آبائِهِ في مدينةِ داوُدَ، فمَلَكَ آحازُ ابنُهُ مكانَهُ.
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.