2 Chronicles 27:5
He fought also with the king of the people of Ammon and defeated them. In that same year, the people of Ammon gave him one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand measures of wheat, ten thousand measures of barley. The people of Ammon gave him the same in the second and third years.
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6So Jotham became powerful because he walked firmly before Yahweh his God.
Cross References
Judges 11:4Some days later, the people of Ammon made war against Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:1It came about after this, that the people of Moab and Ammon, and with them some Meunites came against Jehoshaphat to do battle. + 20:1 The reading some Meunites represents a correction to the Hebrew text, which reads, some Ammonites . It is thought that Meunites was original, and that a copyist changed it to some Ammonites . But this last reading makes no sense, because Ammonites have already been mentioned in this verse. However, different versions deal with this problem in different ways.
Jeremiah 49:1About the people of Ammon, Yahweh says this, 1 “Does Israel have no children? Is there no one to inherit anything in Israel? 1 Why does Molech occupy Gad, and his people live in its cities? + 49:1 Instead of Molech , some modern versions have their king . 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 →