King James Version
What Does 2 Chronicles 27:8 Mean?
“He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.”
Context
6
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God. prepared: or, established
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.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(8) **He was five and twenty years old.**—A word for word repetition of 2Kings 15:33, omitting the last clause about the queen-mother. Perhaps in one of the chronicler’s sources this notice occurred at the beginning, and in another at the end of the reign. This would account for its repetition here, after having been already stated in 2Chronicles 27:1.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
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Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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