Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make around them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land still belongs to us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
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 to him, both the second year, and the third.