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Jotham

Also called Joatham

Mentioned in 20 verses across 7 books, first in 2 Chronicles 26:21. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

In these stories

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At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 784 BC · died c. 742 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Historians also date this period from evidence outside the Bible, and their dates can differ from this reckoning.

Group

Tribe of Judah, Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Parents

Uzziahson of Amaziah
Jerushah

Children

Ahazson of Jotham

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

Uzziahson of Amaziah10 verses
Ahazson of Jotham8 verses
God5 verses
Remaliah4 verses
Pekah4 verses
Hezekiahson of Ahaz4 verses
David3 verses
Judah (patriarch)3 verses
Jeroboamson of Joash2 verses
Amoz1 verse
Hosheason of Elah1 verse
Isaiah1 verse
Amaziahson of Joash1 verse
Hosea1 verse

Places

Where the data places them (born, died, or an event they take part in) first; then places named in the same verses, which does not mean they were there.

Jerusalemborn here; died here +2 more4 shared verses
Moresheth1 shared verse
Syria1 shared verse
Samaria1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 6 verses in 2 Chronicles, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles 26:21
So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace to govern the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 26:23
And Uzziah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in a field of burial that belonged to the kings; for the people said, “He was a leper.” And his son Jotham reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 27:1
Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother’s name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.
2 Chronicles 27:6
So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 27:7
As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with all his wars and his ways, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
2 Chronicles 27:9
And Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.

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Events

Events the dataset lists Jotham as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 758 BC
Reign of Jotham2 Kings 15:32–38 · at Jerusalem
c. 742 BC
Death of Jotham2 Kings 15:38 · at Jerusalem

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

The son and successor of Uzziah on the throne of Judah. As during his last years Uzziah was excluded from public life on account of his leprosy, his son, then twenty-five years of age, administered for seven years the affairs of the kingdom in his father’s stead (2 Chr. 26:21, 23; 27:1). After his father’s death he became sole monarch, and reigned for sixteen years (B.C. 759-743). He ruled in the fear of God, and his reign was prosperous. He was contemporary with the prophets Isaiah, Hosea, and Micah, by whose ministrations he profited. He was buried in the sepulchre of the kings, greatly lamented by the people (2 Kings 15:38; 2 Chr. 27:7-9).