2 Chronicles 14:10

10 Asa marched against him, setting up for battle in a valley north of Mareshah.

2 Chronicles 14:10 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 14:10

Then Asa went out against him
Notwithstanding he brought so great an army with him:

and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at
Mareshah;
where the Ethiopians were; he did not stay till they got further into his country, but marched against them when on the frontiers of it, and chose the valley to pitch in, as being more to the advantage of his smaller army; see ( Judges 1:17 ) .

2 Chronicles 14:10 In-Context

8 Asa had an army of three hundred thousand Judeans armed with body-sized shields and spears and another two hundred eighty thousand from Benjamin armed with small shields and bows. All were brave warriors.

9 Zerah the Cushite marched against him with an army of one million men and three hundred chariots. When he got as far as Mareshah,

10 Asa marched against him, setting up for battle in a valley north of Mareshah.

11 Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God, "LORD, only you can help the weak against the powerful. Help us, LORD our God, because we rely on you and we have marched against this multitude in your name. You are the LORD our God. Don't let a mere human stand against you!"

12 So the LORD struck the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.

Footnotes

• [a] LXX; MT an otherwise unknown Zephathah Valley