the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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2 Chronicles 12:3
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twelve hundred: Judges 4:13, 1 Samuel 13:5, 2 Samuel 10:18
without number: 2 Chronicles 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. 2 Chronicles 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 ום פסשדכביע, in caves.
Ethiopians: These Cushim were probably the inhabitants of Ethiopia, south of Egypt. 2 Chronicles 14:12, 2 Chronicles 16:8, Isaiah 43:3, Daniel 11:43, Nahum 3:9, Cushim, Heb. Genesis 10:6-8
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 7:6 - the kings of the Egyptians
Cross-References
seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Abraham's children will certainly become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.
After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
since Abraham is destined to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him?
sithen he schal be in to a greet folk and moost strong, and alle naciouns of erthe schulen be blessid in hym?
and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?
Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen; and the people were without number,.... The foot soldiers; their number, according to Josephus h was 400,000:
that came with him out of Egypt; the above numerous army came from thence with him, which was famous for horses and chariots of war, see
Exodus 14:7, what follow seem to have joined him after he came out of Egypt, or whom he subdued in his way; the Lubim or Lybians, inhabitants of Libya, a country near Egypt the same with the Lehabim; of whom see
Genesis 10:13,
the Sukkiims; who were either the Scenite Arabs, who dwelt in tents, as this word signifies; or the Troglodytes, according to the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, who dwelt in dens and caves, in which sense the word "Succah" is sometimes used, Job 38:40 and in their country was a town called Suchae, mentioned by Pliny i; they inhabited near the Red sea; and if Shishak is the same with Sesostris, as is thought, these people were subdued by him, as Herodotus k and Strabo l testify:
and the Ethiopians; some think these were the Cushite Arabs, and that Sesostris came into Arabia is testified by the above writers; though rather the proper Ethiopians are meant, since they are joined with the Lubim or Africans; and since, as Herodotus m says, he ruled over Ethiopia; and Diodorus Siculus n says he fought with them, and obliged them to pay him tribute.
h Antiqu. l. 8. c. 10. sect. 2. i Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 29. k Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 102. l Geograph. l. 16. p. 529. m Ut supra, (Euterpe, sive, l. 2.) c. 110. n Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 50.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
twelve hundred chariots - This number is not unusnal (compare Exodus 14:7; 1 Kings 10:26). Benhadad brought 1,200 chariots into the field against Shalmaneser II; and Ahabhad at the same time a force of 2,000 chariots (compare the 1 Kings 20:1 note).
The Lubims or “Libyans” Daniel 11:43, were a people of Africa, distinct from the Egyptians and the Ethiopians dwelling in their immediate neighborhood. They were called Ribu or Libu by the Egyptians. See Genesis 10:13.
Sukkiims - This name does not occur elsewhere. The Septuagint, who rendered the word “Troglodytes,” regarded the Sukkiim probably as the “cave-dwellers” along the western shore of the Red Sea; but the conjecture that the word means “tent-dwellers” is plausible, and would point rather to a tribe of Arahs (Scenitae).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Chronicles 12:3. The Lubims — Supposed to be a people of Libya, adjoining to Egypt; sometimes called Phut in Scripture, as the people are called Lehabim and Ludim.
The Sukkiims — The Troglodytes, a people of Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea. They were called Troglodytes, Τρωγλοδυται, οἱ τας τρωγλας οικουντες, "because they dwelt in caves." - Hesych. This agrees with what Pliny says of them, Troglodytae specus excavant, haec illis domus; "The Troglodytes dig themselves caves; and these serve them for houses." This is not very different from the import of the original name סכיים Sukkiyim, from סכה sachah, to cover or overspread; (hence סוך such, a tabernacle;) the people who were covered (emphatically) under the earth. The Septuagint translate by the word Τρωγλοδυται, Troglodytes.
The Ethiopians. — כושים Cushim. Various people were called by this name, particularly a people bordering on the northern coast of the Red Sea; but these are supposed to have come from a country of that name on the south of Egypt.
