Bible in Basic English
"So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide."
— 2 Chronicles 27:6, Bible in Basic English
“So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.”
“So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God. ”
“So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.”
“Jotham grew powerful because he was determined to please the LORD his God.”
“And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed before the Lord his God.”
“So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.”
He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.
In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.
He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.
So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.
And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.