The king of the Ammonites, it seems, endeavoured to shake off the yoke which from David's time had been put upon them.
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2 Chronicles 27:5
5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.