2 Chronicles 27:5
He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against him: and the children of Ammon gave him even annually a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. These the king of the children of Ammon brought to him annually in the first and second and third years.
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4In the mountain of Judah, and in the woods, he built both dwelling places and towers.
6Jotham grew strong, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
Cross References
Judges 11:4And it came to pass when the children of Ammon prepared to fight with Israel,
2 Chronicles 20:1And after this came the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunites, against Jehoshaphat to battle.
Jeremiah 49:1Then came all the leaders of the host, and Johanan, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people great and small,
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 27:2-9
The Reign of Jotham. ( b. c. 758.) 1 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 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. 3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord , and on the wall of Ophel he built much. 4 Moreover he built cities in the… Read the whole commentary →