SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:5
También tuvo él guerra con el rey de los hijos de Amón, a los cuales venció; y le dieron los hijos de Amón en aquel año cien talentos de plata, y diez mil coros de trigo, y diez mil de cebada. Esto le dieron los amonitas, y lo mismo en el segundo año, y en el tercero.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 27:5
Verse 5. He fought also with-the Ammonites] We find here that he brought them under a heavy tribute for three years; but whether this was the effect of his prevailing against them, is not so evident. Some think that they paid this tribute for three years, and then revolted; that, in consequence, he attacked them, and their utter subjection was the result.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 5. He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them , etc.] These were brought into subjection by David; but in later times endeavoured to cast off the yoke, and even invaded the land of Judah, as in the days of Jehoshaphat, and now in the reign of Jotham, but succeeded not, (see Amos 1:13) and the children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver ; he obliged them to pay this tribute annually, and which they began to pay in the present year, and amounted to 35,330 pounds, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley ; the measure here is the “cor”, the same with the “homer”; which, according to Godwin f118 , held forty five gallons, or five bushels and five gallons, so that there must be upwards of 50,000 bushels of each of these paid to Jotham; according to Bishop Cumberland f119 , a “cor”, or “homer”, held seventy five wine gallons, and upwards of five pints: so much did the children of Ammon pay both the second year and the third ; the two following years as well as the present one; why this tribute was not continued to be paid cannot be said with certainty, whether the Ammonites refused and revolted, and could not be obliged, or whether the agreement was only for three years.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Jotham's reign in Judah. --The people did corruptly. Perhaps Jotham was wanting towards the reformation of the land. Men may be very good, and yet not have courag and zeal to do what they might. It certainly casts blame upon the people. Jotham prospered, and became mighty. The more stedfast we ar in religion, the more mighty we are, both to resist evil, and to d good. The Lord often removes wise and pious rulers, and sends others whose follies and vices punish a people that valued not their mercies __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
והוא 1931 נלחם 3898 עם 5973 מלך 4428 בני 1121 עמון 5983 ויחזק 2388 עליהם 5921 ויתנו 5414 לו בני 1121 עמון 5983 בשׁנה 8141 ההיא 1931 מאה 3967 ככר 3603 כסף 3701 ועשׂרת 6235 אלפים 505 כרים 3734 חטים 2406 ושׂעורים 8184 עשׂרת 6235 אלפים 505 זאת 2063 השׁיבו 7725 לו בני 1121 עמון 5983 ובשׁנה 8141 השׁנית 8145 והשׁלשׁית׃ 7992
