2 Chronicles 27:5

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He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a 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.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

God, or who had the gift of intelligence and prophecy from God. Hebrew, "who was intelligent in the visions of God. "Others have read birath, with the Septuagint, "in the fear "or Chaldean, "instructing in the fear of the Lord. "The Jews childishly understand Zacharias to mean the king himself, in the early part of his reign. Others suppose the priest, who was slain by Joas, is designated. (Lyranus) But this was rather his son (Tirinus; Cajetan; Calmet) and successor, as well as a prophet, who had therefore a more perfect knowledge of God; though none can comprehend his being. (Haydock)

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