2 Chronicles 27:8
Context
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
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

Darby Bible Translation
He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

World English Bible
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
A son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and sixteen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem;
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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