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2 Chronicles 27
1.Jotham 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. 2. And 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. 3. He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. 4. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
5.He 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. 6. So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
7.Now 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. 8. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9.And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
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Why does the chapter repeat Jotham’s age and reign twice (verses 1–2 and 7–8)?
The chapter records Jotham’s reign once as narrative and again as a summary notice that ties this account to the royal archives: verse 1 gives the opening facts and verse 7 signals “the rest of the acts… are written in the book of the kings,” then verse 8 restates age and length to close the entry. The repetition acts like a formal seal, anchoring the life-events just narrated to the official record of the monarchy.
This pattern appears elsewhere in Samuel and Kings where an initial narrative is followed by a curt archival gloss; compare 1 Kings 2:10–11 where a death and then the book of the chronicles are cited. The chapter uses that conventional doublet to mark a complete, authoritative entry in the royal annals.
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