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2 Chronicles 27:1 Explained in Context
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Verse 1. 1Jotham 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.
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Role in This Section
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech: “Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Jotham builds and grows strong without entering the temple.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 27:1–6
Read 2 Chronicles 27:1 with 27:1–6. The selected wording supplies one opening in the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Jotham receives a positive evaluation, avoids Uzziah's temple trespass, builds at the temple and on defenses, defeats Ammon, receives tribute, and strengthens his ways before God.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 27:1 depends on 27:1–6; isolating “Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Jotham builds and grows strong without entering the temple.”
Read 2 Chronicles 27:1–6 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 27:1–6 forms the complete movement “Jotham builds and grows strong without entering the temple”: Jotham receives a positive evaluation, avoids Uzziah's temple trespass, builds at the temple and on defenses, defeats Ammon, receives tribute, and strengthens his ways before God.
Verse 1. 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.
Verse 2. 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.
Verse 3. 3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
Verse 4. 4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
Verse 5. 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.
Verse 6. 6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 27:1–6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
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