2 Chronicles 27:5 meaning and explanation

Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. They paid him the same in the second and third years.

2 Chronicles 27:5, Berean Standard Bible

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The Chronicler reports that Jotham, king of Judah, defeated the Ammonites, who then paid him tribute for three years: a hundred talents of silver and ten thousand cors each of wheat and barley. The Ammonites were a neighboring people east of the Jordan, and this campaign shows Jotham's strength after his father Uzziah's reign.

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