Israel’s sovereign may signal Jotham’s assumption of duties as regent and that 2 Kgs 15:33 credits Jotham with a six-year reign (perhaps “when cyphers instead of words were used,”Heb šēš [six] was misread as šēš ʿeśrē [sixteen]). Finally, the Chronicler’s presentation of Jotham of Judah and Jeroboam II of Israel as contemporaries (1 Chr 5:17) poses no problem so long as the former is understood to have the status of regent. b. Jotham in the Deuteronomistic History. Jotham is introduced as