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. So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God. (A)Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

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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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