2 Chronicles 12:3
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| Overview - 2 Chronicles 12 | |
| 1 | Rehoboam, forsaking the Lord, is punished by Shishak. |
| 5 | He and the princes, repenting at the preaching of Shemaiah, are delivered from destruction, but not from spoil. |
| 13 | The reign and death of Rehoboam. |
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2 Chronicles 12:3 (King James Version)
With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
- twelve hundred
- Judges 4:13 ; 1 Samuel 13:5 ; 2 Samuel 10:18
- without number
- 14:9 Judges 6:5 ; Revelation 9:16
- Lubims
- Lubim, apparently the same with Lehabim ( Genesis 10:13, ,)were probably the ancient inhabitants of Lybia, (called Lubi in the Syriac version, Acts 2:10, ,)a district of Africa, adjoining to Egypt, and extending along the shore of the Mediterranean as far as the city of Cyrene.
- 16:8 Ezekiel 30:5 ; Nahum 3:9
- the Sukkiims
- The Sukkiim, (from {sachach,} "to cover,") are supposed to have been the Troglodites, as the LXX. and Vulgate render, a people of Egypt, on the west of the Red Sea, so called because they dwelt [en troglais,] in caves.
- Ethiopians
- These Cushim were probably the inhabitants of Ethiopia, south of Egypt.
- 14:12 16:8 Isaiah 43:3 ; Daniel 11:43 ; Nahum 3:9
- Cushim
- Hebrew
- Genesis 10:6-8