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2 Chronicles 27:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Jotham's record, age, and burial close the reign.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 27:7–9
Read 2 Chronicles 27:8 with 27:7–9. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: The narrator cites further acts and wars, sums Jotham's sixteen-year reign, and records his burial in David's city before Ahaz succeeds.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Jotham's record, age, and burial close the reign,” 2 Chronicles 27:8 advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence through the wording “He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The brief close leaves the people's corruption unresolved for the next reign. 2 Chronicles 27:1–6 has just established this prior movement: 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. Together those details explain why “Jotham's record, age, and burial close the reign” belongs here rather than merely following a database record.
Read 2 Chronicles 27:7–9 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 27:7–9 forms the complete movement “Jotham's record, age, and burial close the reign”: The narrator cites further acts and wars, sums Jotham's sixteen-year reign, and records his burial in David's city before Ahaz succeeds.
Verse 7. 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.
Verse 8. 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
Verse 9. 9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
What Remains True
Temple repair, prophetic truth, warfare, royal strength, priestly boundaries, illness, and succession show that good beginnings and institutional service never excuse later abuse. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: The narrator cites further acts and wars, sums Jotham's sixteen-year reign, and records his burial in David's city before Ahaz succeeds. In 2 Chronicles 27:8, the concrete line “He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.” Use transparent finances and skilled work, protect prophets and workers, refuse cruelty after victory, maintain role boundaries, and never stigmatize disease or disability. This response follows from the unit's own movement: The narrator cites further acts and wars, sums Jotham's sixteen-year reign, and records his burial in David's city before Ahaz succeeds.
Continue in Context
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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 27:7–9, 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 27:7–9
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 27:7–9, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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