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2 Chronicles 27:5 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 27 · verse 5
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.2 Chronicles 27:5 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 27:5 in context
3He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
5He 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.
6So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
7Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- AmmonitesʻAmmôwnîyan Ammonite or AmmonitishH5984 →
- prevailedchâzaqto fasten uponH2388 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- talentskikkâra circleH3603 →
- foughtlâchamto feed onH3898 →
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There is not much more related here concerning Jotham than we had before, Kg2 15:32, etc. I. He reigned well. He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9