Teks -- 2 Chronicles 27:5 (NET)

27:5 He launched a military campaign against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. That year the Ammonites paid him 100 talents of silver, 10,000 kors of wheat, and 10,000 kors of barley. The Ammonites also paid this same amount of annual tribute the next two years.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: 2Ch 27:5 - He fought also with the king of the Ammonites

This invasion he not only repelled, but, pursuing the Ammonites into their own territory, he imposed on them a yearly tribute, which, for two years, they paid. But when Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, king of Israel, combined to attack the kingdom of Judah, they took the opportunity of revolting, and Jotham was too distracted by other matters to attempt the reconquest (see on 2Ki 15:37).

Clarke: 2Ch 27:5 - He fought also with - the Ammonites

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.

TSK: 2Ch 27:5 - the king of the Ammonites // ten thousand // So much

the king of the Ammonites : We find here, that he brought the Ammonites 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. 2Ch 20:1; Judg. 11:4-33; 2Sa 10:1-14; Jer 49:1-6

ten thousand : Rather, ""ten thousand cors (korim ) of wheat.""The cor was same as the homer , and contained about 32 pecks 1 pint.

So much : Heb. This

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Ch 27:5 - The king of the Ammonites

The king of the Ammonites it seems, endeavoured to shake off the yoke which from David’ s time had been put upon them.

Haydock: 2Ch 27:5 - Measures // Give him

Measures, ( coros. ) Heb. corim, also, (H.) means an "ass;" as this burden was sufficient for one, being equivalent to 30 Romans bushels. Cornelius a Lapide) M. ---

Give him. Sept. adds, "These things did the king of Ammon bring to him every year, in the first year, and in the second, and the third." H. ---

After paying tribute three years, the Ammonites revolted, and were subdued by Joatham, as they had been by his father, C. xxvi. 7.

Gill: 2Ch 27:5 - He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them // and the children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver // and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley // so much did the children of Ammon pay both the second year and the third

He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them,.... 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 Amo 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 ^h, 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 ⁱ, 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.