2 Chronicles 16:8

8 Were not the Cushites ^[a] and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

2 Chronicles 16:8 In-Context

6 Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials he built up Geba and Mizpah.

7 At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.

8 Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.

9 For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be at war.”

10 Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

Footnotes

• [a] That is, people from the upper Nile region