He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year 100 talents[a] of silver, and 10,000 cors[b] of wheat and 10,000 of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 27:5 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
  2. 2 Chronicles 27:5 A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters

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