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2 Chronicles 27 Bible study: He ordered his ways

The one thing Jotham didn't copy from his father is told with the same Hebrew verb and the same word for temple as his father's trespass: Uzziah "went into the LORD’s temple" (26:16); Jotham "didn’t enter into the LORD’s temple" (27:2). And 2 Chronicles gives the reason he became mighty: "he ordered his ways before the LORD his God" (27:6).

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“So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.”
2 Chronicles 27:6 · World English Bible

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The one thing he didn't copy

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Jotham "did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that his father Uzziah had done" (27:2). Then comes one exception: "However he didn’t enter into the LORD’s temple" (27:2) (tap temple). The chapter before tells what Uzziah had done: "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly and he trespassed against the LORD his God, for he went into the LORD’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense" (26:16). In Hebrew the two verses use the same verb for going in and the same word for temple, heikhal: Uzziah went in, and his son didn't. The priests had told Uzziah, "It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests the sons of Aaron" (26:18). 2 Chronicles doesn't say why Jotham stayed out, and these notes don't guess.

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  • The people still acted corruptly
  • Why he became mighty
  • The wall of Ophel
  • In the days of Jotham
  • Jotham, and a people's sins
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The Hebrew word behind it

כּוּןkunsay KOON

Strong's: "properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up". Brown-Driver-Briggs gives, among the senses of the form used here, "establish, set up" and "arrange, order". "So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God" (27:6). 2 Chronicles has used it of hearts: Rehoboam "didn’t set his heart to seek the LORD" (12:14), Jehoshaphat had "set your heart to seek God" (19:3), and "the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers" (20:33). Here it is his ways. A psalm uses the same verb with the same noun: "Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!" (Psalm 119:5).

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2 Chronicles 27 Bible study questions

  1. 1Jotham did right "according to all that his father Uzziah had done. However he didn’t enter into the LORD’s temple" (27:2). What have you kept from those before you, and what have you chosen not to repeat?
  2. 2Jotham "ordered his ways before the LORD his God" (27:6). What would ordering one part of your week before God look like?
  3. 3The king did right, yet "The people still acted corruptly" (27:2). When you try to do right, how much do you expect it to change the people around you?

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