Therefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they defeated him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with a great slaughter.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Measures, (coros.) Hebrew corim, also, (Haydock) means an "ass "as this burden was sufficient for one, being equivalent to 30 Roman bushels. (Cornelius a Lap ide) (Menochius)
Give him. Septuagint adds, "These things did the king of Ammon bring to him every year, in the first year, and in the second, and the third. "(Haydock)
After paying tribute three years, the Ammonites revolted, and were subdued by Joatham, as they had been by his father, chap. xxvi. 7.