2 Chronicles 27:6
Context
6So Jotham became mighty because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God. 7Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, even all his wars and his acts, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 8He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. 9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.



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Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joatham was strengthened, be- cause he had his way directed before the Lord his God.

Darby Bible Translation
And Jotham became strong, for he prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.

English Revised Version
So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

Webster's Bible Translation
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

World English Bible
So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jotham doth strengthen himself, for he hath prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.
Library
Jotham
'So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.'--2 CHRON. xxvii 6. This King Jotham is one of the obscurer of the Jewish monarchs, and we know next to nothing about him. The most memorable event in his reign is that 'in the year when King Uzziah,' his father, 'died,' and consequently in Jotham's first year, Isaiah saw the Lord sitting in the Temple on the empty throne, and had the lips which were to utter so many immortal words touched with fire from the altar. Whether
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Chronicles
The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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