Moreover, he built (A)cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills. He fought also with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them so that the Ammonites gave him during that year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand [a]kors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites also paid him this amount in the second and in the third year. (B)So Jotham became mighty because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 27:5 I.e. One kor equals approx 10 bu