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2 Chronicles 27:6 Explained in Context
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Verse 6. 6So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
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Quick Meaning
Grounds Jotham's strength in his deliberately ordered ways.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 27:1–27:6
Grounds Jotham's strength in his deliberately ordered ways. Read 2 Chronicles 27:6 within 27:1–27:6. The complete unit records: 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 This Verse Appears Here
The short reign deliberately contrasts a son who can build near sacred space without crossing the priestly boundary. In this exact position, the line beginning “So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.” grounds Jotham's strength in his deliberately ordered ways.
Follow the Context
- 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.
- The short reign deliberately contrasts a son who can build near sacred space without crossing the priestly boundary.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.”
In plain language: Grounds Jotham's strength in his deliberately ordered ways.
The line beginning “So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.” grounds Jotham's strength in his deliberately ordered ways.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Jotham's strength does not prove every campaign just or guarantee that personal faithfulness reforms the whole population.
What Remains True
Grounds Jotham's strength in his deliberately ordered ways. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse grounds Jotham's strength in his deliberately ordered ways, keep it inside 27:1–27:6, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 27:6 grounds Jotham's strength in his deliberately ordered ways. Use 27:1–27:6, paraphrase “So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 27:1–27:6 — Jotham builds and grows strong without entering the templeSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 27:6 remains within this thought-unit limit: The received text's literary claim is clear, while source history, exact chronology, numbers, speech wording, and event-level reconstruction remain questions of graded historical judgment.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 27:1–27:6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 27:1–27:6
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 27:1–27:6, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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