2 Chronicles 27:6
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.In other versions
So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God.
ASV
So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.
BBE
And Jotham became strong, for he prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.
DBY
So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.
WEB
And Jotham doth strengthen himself, for he hath prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.
YLT
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
ENG
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
WBT
So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
BSB
In context
4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
5He 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.
6So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
7Now 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.
8He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
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