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

¹A son of twenty and five years [is] Jotham in his reigning, and sixteen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

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

²And he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that Uzziah his father did; only, he hath not come in unto the temple of Jehovah; and again are the people doing corruptly.

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

³He hath built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and in the wall of Ophel he hath built abundantly;

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

⁴and cities he hath built in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he hath built palaces 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.

⁵And he hath fought with the king of the sons of Ammon, and prevaileth over them, and the sons of Ammon give to him in that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat, and of barley ten thousand; this have the sons of Ammon returned to him both in the second year, and in the third.

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

⁶And Jotham doth strengthen himself, for he hath prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.

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

⁷And the rest of the matters of Jotham, and all his battles, and his ways, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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

⁸A son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and sixteen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem;

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

⁹and Jotham lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David, and reign doth Ahaz his son in his stead.