2 Chronicles 27:3-5

Evangelical Heritage Version

³ He built the upper gate of the House of the Lord. He also carried out extensive construction work on the wall of Ophel. ⁴ He also built cities in the hill country of Judah. On the wooded hills he built forts and towers.

⁵ He waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. That year the Ammonites gave him one hundred talents of silver, sixty thousand bushels^[a] of wheat, and sixty thousand bushels of barley. The Ammonites paid him this amount also in the second and third years.