¹Jotamu akatanga kubata ushe asvika makore makumi maviri namashanu; akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore ane gumi namatanhatu; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Jerusha mukunda waZadhoki.

¹Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

²Akaita zvakarurama pamberi paJehovha, akaita zvose zvakaitwa nababa vake Uziya; asi haana kupinda mutemberi yaJehovha. Vanhu vakaramba vachiita zvakashata.

²And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

³Akavaka suwo rokumusoro reimba yaJehovha, akavakawo zvizhinji pamusoro porusvingo rweOferi.

³He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

⁴Wakavakawo maguta panyika yamakomo yaJudha, uye akavaka nhare neshongwe mumatondo.

⁴Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

⁵Akarwawo namambo wavana vaAmoni, akavakunda. Negore iro vana vaAmoni vakamupa matarenda* esirivha ane zana, nezviyero zvezviyo zvine zviuru zvine gumi, nezviyero zvebhari zvine zviuru zvine gumi. Vana vaAmoni vakamupa zvizhinji zvakadai pagore rechipiri, negore rechitatuwo.

⁵He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

⁶Naizvozvo Jotamu akasimba, nekuti akagadzira nzira dzake pamberi paJehovha Mwari wake.

⁶So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

⁷Zvino mamwe mabasa aJotamu, nokurwa kwake kose netsika dzake, tarirai zvakanyorwa mubhuku yamadzimambo aIsiraeri naaJudha.

⁷Now 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.

⁸Akatanga kubata ushe asvika makore makumi maviri namashanu; akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore gumi namatanhatu.

⁸He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

⁹Jotamu akavata namadzibaba ake; vakamuviga muguta raDhavhidhi; Ahazi mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

⁹And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.