They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt, and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria.

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

Amaziah asked the prophet: "But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?" The prophet replied, "The Lord is capable of giving you more than that."

The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah and his fame reached the border of Egypt, for he grew in power.

He launched a military campaign against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. That year the Ammonites paid him 100 talents of silver, 10,000 kors of wheat, and 10,000 kors of barley. The Ammonites also paid this same amount of annual tribute the next two years.

The Lord confronted Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.

In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.

They handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord's temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it.