Apologetics Bible

2Chronicles 27:1

Hebrew

בֶּן־עֶשְׂרִים וְחָמֵשׁ שָׁנָה יוֹתָם בְּמָלְכוֹ וְשֵׁשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה מָלַךְ בִּֽירוּשָׁלָ͏ִם וְשֵׁם אִמּוֹ יְרוּשָׁה בַּת־צָדֽוֹק׃

ven-'esheriym-vechamesh-shanah-yvotam-vemalekhvo-veshesh-'eshereh-shanah-malakhe-viyrvshalaim-veshem-'imvo-yervshah-vat-tzadvoq

KJV: 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.

AKJV: 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.

ASV: Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.

YLT: A 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.

Exposition: 2Chronicles 27:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

2Chronicles 27:2

Hebrew

וַיַּעַשׂ הַיָּשָׁר בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה כְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה עֻזִּיָּהוּ אָבִיו רַק לֹא־בָא אֶל־הֵיכַל יְהוָה וְעוֹד הָעָם מַשְׁחִיתִֽים׃

vaya'ash-hayashar-ve'eyney-yehvah-khekhol-'asher-'ashah-'uziyahv-'aviyv-raq-lo'-va'-'el-heykhal-yehvah-ve'vod-ha'am-mashechiytiym

KJV: 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.

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

ASV: And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: howbeit he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people did yet corruptly.

YLT: And 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.

Exposition: 2Chronicles 27:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

2Chronicles 27:3

Hebrew

הוּא בָּנָה אֶת־שַׁעַר בֵּית־יְהוָה הָעֶלְיוֹן וּבְחוֹמַת הָעֹפֶל בָּנָה לָרֹֽב׃

hv'-vanah-'et-sha'ar-veyt-yehvah-ha'eleyvon-vvechvomat-ha'ofel-vanah-larov

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

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

ASV: He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

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

Exposition: 2Chronicles 27:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

2Chronicles 27:4

Hebrew

וְעָרִים בָּנָה בְּהַר־יְהוּדָה וּבֶחֳרָשִׁים בָּנָה בִּֽירָנִיּוֹת וּמִגְדָּלִֽים׃

ve'ariym-vanah-vehar-yehvdah-vvechorashiym-vanah-viyraniyvot-vmigedaliym

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

AKJV: Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. ¶

ASV: Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

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

Exposition: 2Chronicles 27:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

2Chronicles 27:5

Hebrew

וְהוּא נִלְחַם עִם־מֶלֶךְ בְּנֵי־עַמּוֹן וַיֶּחֱזַק עֲלֵיהֶם וַיִּתְּנוּ־לוֹ בְנֵֽי־עַמּוֹן בַּשָּׁנָה הַהִיא מֵאָה כִּכַּר־כֶּסֶף וַעֲשֶׂרֶת אֲלָפִים כֹּרִים חִטִּים וּשְׂעוֹרִים עֲשֶׂרֶת אֲלָפִים זֹאת הֵשִׁיבוּ לוֹ בְּנֵי עַמּוֹן וּבַשָּׁנָה הַשֵּׁנִית וְהַשְּׁלִשִֽׁית׃

vehv'-nilecham-'im-melekhe-veney-'amvon-vayechezaq-'aleyhem-vayitenv-lvo-veney-'amvon-vashanah-hahiy'-me'ah-khikhar-khesef-va'asheret-'alafiym-khoriym-chitiym-vshe'voriym-'asheret-'alafiym-zo't-heshiyvv-lvo-veney-'amvon-vvashanah-hasheniyt-vehashelishiyt

KJV: 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.

AKJV: 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 to him, both the second year, and the third.

ASV: He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render unto him, in the second year also, and in the third.

YLT: And 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.

Exposition: 2Chronicles 27:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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....'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

2Chronicles 27:6

Hebrew

וַיִּתְחַזֵּק יוֹתָם כִּי הֵכִין דְּרָכָיו לִפְנֵי יְהוָה אֱלֹהָֽיו׃

vayitechazeq-yvotam-khiy-hekhiyn-derakhayv-lifeney-yehvah-'elohayv

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

AKJV: So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God. ¶

ASV: So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God.

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

Exposition: 2Chronicles 27:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

2Chronicles 27:7

Hebrew

וְיֶתֶר דִּבְרֵי יוֹתָם וְכָל־מִלְחֲמֹתָיו וּדְרָכָיו הִנָּם כְּתוּבִים עַל־סֵפֶר מַלְכֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל וִיהוּדָֽה׃

veyeter-diverey-yvotam-vekhal-milechamotayv-vderakhayv-hinam-khetvviym-'al-sefer-malekhey-yishera'el-viyhvdah

KJV: 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.

AKJV: Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, see, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

ASV: Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

YLT: And 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.

Exposition: 2Chronicles 27:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

2Chronicles 27:8

Hebrew

בֶּן־עֶשְׂרִים וְחָמֵשׁ שָׁנָה הָיָה בְמָלְכוֹ וְשֵׁשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה מָלַךְ בִּירוּשָׁלָֽ͏ִם׃

ven-'esheriym-vechamesh-shanah-hayah-vemalekhvo-veshesh-'eshereh-shanah-malakhe-viyrvshalaim

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

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

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

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

Exposition: 2Chronicles 27:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

2Chronicles 27:9

Hebrew

וַיִּשְׁכַּב יוֹתָם עִם־אֲבֹתָיו וַיִּקְבְּרוּ אֹתוֹ בְּעִיר דָּוִיד וַיִּמְלֹךְ אָחָז בְּנוֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃

vayishekhav-yvotam-'im-'avotayv-vayiqeverv-'otvo-ve'iyr-daviyd-vayimelokhe-'achaz-venvo-tachetayv

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

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

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

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

Exposition: 2Chronicles 27:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.