2 Chronicles 27:5

He fought also with Melech Bnei Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the Bnei Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of kesef, and ten thousand measures of chittim (wheat), and ten thousand of se'orim (barley). The Bnei Ammon did pay this amount unto him, both the second year, and the third.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

He 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.

In Context

4Moreover he built towns in the har Yehudah, and in the forests he built fortresses and migdalim.

6So Yotam became mighty, because he made the darkhei Yotam steadfast before Hashem Elohav.

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Cross References

Judges 11:4And it came to pass in process of time, that the Bnei Ammon made war against Yisroel.

2 Chronicles 20:1It came to pass after this also, that the Bnei Moav, and the Bnei Ammon, and with them some Ammonim, came against Yehoshaphat to make milchamah.

Jeremiah 49:1Concerning Bnei Ammon, thus saith Hashem: 1 Hath Yisroel no banim? 1 Hath he no yoresh (heir)? 1 Why then doth Malcam (Molech) inherit Gad, 1 and his people dwell in his towns? 1

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 →

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