جب عمونی بادشاہ کے ساتھ جنگ چھڑ گئی تو اُس نے عمونیوں کو شکست دی۔ تین سال تک اُنہیں اُسے سالانہ خراج کے طور پر تقریباً 3,400 کلو گرام چاندی، 16,00,000 کلو گرام گندم اور 13,50,000 کلو گرام جَو ادا کرنا پڑا۔
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.