2 Chronicles 27
Lutheran reading notes
In 2 Chronicles chapter 27, the account continues the story of the kings of Judah and temple-centered worship. Lutheran interpretation frequently highlights how these events reveal both human sinfulness and God’s faithful promises. The chapter demonstrates the tension between human failure and God’s ongoing grace working through history.
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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 Chronicles 27:1 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
2 Chronicles 27:2 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. {Ophel: or, the tower}
2 Chronicles 27:3 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
2 Chronicles 27:4 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {So...: Heb. This}
2 Chronicles 27:5 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God. {prepared: or, established}
2 Chronicles 27:6 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
2 Chronicles 27:7 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 27:8 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 27:9 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.