2 Chronicles 16:8

8 "Were not ¹the Ethiopians and the Lubim ²an immense army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet ³because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.

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2 Chronicles 16:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 16:8

Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with very
many chariots and horsemen?
&c.] They were no less than 1,000,000 men, and three hundred chariots, ( 2 Chronicles 14:9 ) , the Lubim were the Libyans, a people near Egypt, that dwelt in Africa; according to an Arabic writer ^F12, they were the Nubians:

yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thine
hand;
and with equal ease could and would have delivered the Syrian army unto him, had he as then trusted in the Lord.

FOOTNOTES:

F12 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. dyn. 3. p. 57.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

2 Chronicles 16:8 In-Context

6 Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building, and with them he fortified Geba and Mizpah.

7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "Because you have relied on the king of Aram and have not relied on the LORD your God, therefore the army of the king of Aram has escaped out of your hand.

8 "Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim an immense army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD , He delivered them into your hand.

9 "For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars."

10 Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison , for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

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1. 2 Chronicles 14:9
2. 2 Chronicles 12:3
3. 2 Chronicles 13:16, 18

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