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And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians. <a href="/bsb/2_chronicles/12.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites. <a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/12.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/2_chronicles/12.htm">New King James Version</a> with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt—the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. <a href="/nasb_/2_chronicles/12.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> with 1,200 chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were innumerable: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/12.htm">NASB 1995</a> with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. <a href="/nasb77/2_chronicles/12.htm">NASB 1977 </a> with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. <a href="/lsb/2_chronicles/12.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. <a href="/amp/2_chronicles/12.htm">Amplified Bible</a> with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. The people who came with him from Egypt were beyond counting—the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. <a href="/csb/2_chronicles/12.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 cavalrymen, and countless people who came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites. <a href="/hcsb/2_chronicles/12.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 cavalrymen, and countless people who came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites. <a href="/asv/2_chronicles/12.htm">American Standard Version</a> with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. <a href="/cev/2_chronicles/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Shishak attacked with his army of 1,200 chariots and 60,000 cavalry troops, as well as countless Egyptian soldiers from Libya, Sukkoth, and Ethiopia. <a href="/erv/2_chronicles/12.htm">English Revised Version</a> with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. <a href="/gwt/2_chronicles/12.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Shishak had 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horses, and an army of countless Libyans, Sukkites, and Sudanese from Egypt. <a href="/gnt/2_chronicles/12.htm">Good News Translation</a> with an army of twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand cavalry, and more soldiers than could be counted, including Libyan, Sukkite, and Ethiopian troops. <a href="/isv/2_chronicles/12.htm">International Standard Version</a> with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 cavalry. The Lubim, Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians who invaded from Egypt with Shishak were innumerable. <a href="/msb/2_chronicles/12.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt?Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites. <a href="/net/2_chronicles/12.htm">NET Bible</a> He had 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and an innumerable number of soldiers who accompanied him from Egypt, including Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites. <a href="/nheb/2_chronicles/12.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. <a href="/wbt/2_chronicles/12.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> With twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Cushites. <a href="/web/2_chronicles/12.htm">World English Bible</a> with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_chronicles/12.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> with one thousand and two hundred chariots, and with sixty thousand horsemen, and there is no number to the people who have come with him out of Egypt—Lubim, Sukkiim, and Cushim— <a href="/ylt/2_chronicles/12.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> with a thousand and two hundred chariots, and with sixty thousand horsemen, and there is no number to the people who have come with him out of Egypt -- Lubim, Sukkiim, and Cushim -- <a href="/slt/2_chronicles/12.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> With a thousand and two hundred chariots, and with sixty thousand horsemen: and no number to the people that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, Sukkims, and the Cushites.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_chronicles/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to wit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians. <a href="/cpdv/2_chronicles/12.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> with one thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the common people could not be numbered who had arrived with him from Egypt, namely, the Libyans, and the Troglodytes, and the Ethiopians. <a href="/nabre/2_chronicles/12.htm">New American Bible</a> He had twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen, and there was no counting the army that came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Ethiopians. <a href="/nrsvce/2_chronicles/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand cavalry. A countless army came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_chronicles/12.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims and the Ethiopians.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/2_chronicles/12.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen; and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. <a href="/sep/2_chronicles/12.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horses: and there was no number of the multitude that came with him from Egypt; Libyans, Trogodytes, and Ethiopians. <a href="/parallel/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zGrb4955Tvs?start=2805" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_chronicles/12.htm">Shishak Raids Jerusalem</a> …2In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem 3<a href="/hebrew/505.htm" title="505: bə·’e·lep̄ (Prep-b:: Number-ms) -- A thousand. Prop, the same as 'eleph; hence a thousand.">with 1,200</a> <a href="/hebrew/3967.htm" title="3967: ū·mā·ṯa·yim (Conj-w:: Number-fd) -- Hundred. Or metyah; properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7393.htm" title="7393: re·ḵeḇ (N-ms) -- From rakab; a vehicle; by implication, a team; by extension, cavalry; by analogy a rider, i.e. The upper millstone.">chariots,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8346.htm" title="8346: ū·ḇə·šiš·šîm (Conj-w, Prep-b:: Number-cp) -- Sixty. Multiple of shesh; sixty.">60,000</a> <a href="/hebrew/505.htm" title="505: ’e·lep̄ (Number-ms) -- A thousand. Prop, the same as 'eleph; hence a thousand."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6571.htm" title="6571: pā·rā·šîm (N-mp) -- A steed, a driver, cavalry. From parash; a steed (compare cuwc); also a driver, i.e. cavalry.">horsemen,</a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: wə·’ên (Conj-w:: Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.">and countless</a> <a href="/hebrew/4557.htm" title="4557: mis·pār (N-ms) -- Number, tally. From caphar; a number, definite or indefinite; also narration."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: lā·‘ām (Prep-l, Art:: N-ms) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">troops</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer- (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">who</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: bā·’ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">came</a> <a href="/hebrew/5973.htm" title="5973: ‘im·mōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- From amam; adverb or preposition, with, in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix.">with him</a> <a href="/hebrew/4714.htm" title="4714: mim·miṣ·ra·yim (Prep-m:: N-proper-fs) -- A son of Ham, also his desc. and their country in N.W. Africa. Dual of matsowr; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt.">out of Egypt—</a> <a href="/hebrew/3864.htm" title="3864: lū·ḇîm (N-proper-mp) -- Inhab. of N. Africa. ">Libyans,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5525.htm" title="5525: suk·kî·yîm (N-proper-mp) -- A Sukkite. Patrial from an unknown name; a Sukkite, or inhabitant of some place near Egypt.">Sukkites,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3569.htm" title="3569: wə·ḵū·šîm (Conj-w:: N-proper-mp) -- Desc. of Cush. Patronymically from Kuwsh; a Cushite, or descendant of Cush.">and Cushites.</a> 4He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/exodus/1-11.htm">Exodus 1:11-14</a> So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. / But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. / They worked the Israelites ruthlessly ... <a href="/1_kings/14-25.htm">1 Kings 14:25-26</a> In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. / He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made. <a href="/isaiah/19-4.htm">Isaiah 19:4</a> I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of a harsh master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts. <a href="/jeremiah/46-9.htm">Jeremiah 46:9</a> Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow. <a href="/ezekiel/30-4.htm">Ezekiel 30:4-5</a> A sword will come against Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush when the slain fall in Egypt, its wealth is taken away, and its foundations are torn down. / Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword. <a href="/1_kings/11-40.htm">1 Kings 11:40</a> Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon. <a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm">2 Kings 18:21</a> Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. <a href="/isaiah/31-1.htm">Isaiah 31:1</a> Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD. <a href="/isaiah/36-6.htm">Isaiah 36:6</a> Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. <a href="/ezekiel/17-15.htm">Ezekiel 17:15</a> But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’ <a href="/acts/7-18.htm">Acts 7:18-19</a> Then another king, who knew nothing of Joseph, arose over Egypt. / He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die. <a href="/acts/13-17.htm">Acts 13:17</a> The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land. <a href="/matthew/2-13.htm">Matthew 2:13-15</a> When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.” / So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt, / where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.” <a href="/hebrews/11-24.htm">Hebrews 11:24-26</a> By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. / He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin. / He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward. <a href="/revelation/11-8.htm">Revelation 11:8</a> Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>With twelve hundred chariots, and three score thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.twelve hundred<a href="/judges/4-13.htm">Judges 4:13</a> And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.<a href="/1_samuel/13-5.htm">1 Samuel 13:5</a> And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.<a href="/2_samuel/10-18.htm">2 Samuel 10:18</a> And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.without number<a href="/2_chronicles/14-9.htm">2 Chronicles 14:9</a> And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.<a href="/judges/6-5.htm">Judges 6:5</a> For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.<a href="/revelation/9-16.htm">Revelation 9:16</a> And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.<a href="/genesis/10-13.htm">Genesis 10:13</a> And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,<a href="/genesis/2-10.htm">Genesis 2:10</a> And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.<a href="/2_chronicles/16-8.htm">2 Chronicles 16:8</a> Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.<a href="/2_chronicles/14-12.htm">2 Chronicles 14:12</a> So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.<a href="/2_chronicles/16-8.htm">2 Chronicles 16:8</a> Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.<a href="/isaiah/43-3.htm">Isaiah 43:3</a> For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.Cushim<a href="/genesis/10-6.htm">Genesis 10:6-8</a> And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_chronicles/9-25.htm">Chariots</a> <a href="/zephaniah/2-12.htm">Cushim</a> <a href="/zephaniah/2-12.htm">Cushites</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/12-2.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/acts/8-27.htm">Ethiopians</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/9-25.htm">Horsemen</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/11-1.htm">Hundred</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/22-4.htm">Innumerable</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/16-8.htm">Lubim</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/11-21.htm">Sixty</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/11-1.htm">Thousand</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/11-21.htm">Threescore</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-2.htm">Troops</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/9-25.htm">Twelve</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/9-25.htm">War-Carriages</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_chronicles/14-9.htm">Chariots</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/14-12.htm">Cushim</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/14-12.htm">Cushites</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/12-9.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/14-12.htm">Ethiopians</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/16-8.htm">Horsemen</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/13-3.htm">Hundred</a> <a href="/job/21-33.htm">Innumerable</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/16-8.htm">Lubim</a> <a href="/ezra/2-9.htm">Sixty</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/13-3.htm">Thousand</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/29-32.htm">Threescore</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/13-13.htm">Troops</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-1.htm">Twelve</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/14-9.htm">War-Carriages</a><div class="vheading2">2 Chronicles 12</div>1. <a href="/2_chronicles/12-1.htm">Rehoboam, forsaking the Lord, is punished by Shishak</a> 5. <a href="/2_chronicles/12-5.htm">He and the princes, repenting at the preaching of Shemaiah, </a> 7. <a href="/2_chronicles/12-7.htm">are delivered from destruction, but not from spoil</a> 13. <a href="/2_chronicles/12-13.htm">The reign and death of Rehoboam</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/2_chronicles/12.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/2_chronicles/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/2_chronicles/12.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>with 1,200 chariots Chariots were a significant military asset in ancient warfare, symbolizing power and technological advancement. The use of 1,200 chariots indicates a formidable force, emphasizing the threat posed by Shishak's invasion. Chariots were often used for swift attacks and could turn the tide of battle. In the biblical context, the Israelites were often at a disadvantage against nations with strong chariot forces, as seen in other battles such as those against the Canaanites (<a href="/judges/4-3.htm">Judges 4:3</a>).60,000 horsemen The presence of 60,000 horsemen highlights the scale and strength of Shishak's army. Cavalry units were crucial for their speed and mobility, allowing for rapid movements and strategic advantages in battle. This large number of horsemen underscores the military might of Egypt at the time and the serious threat it posed to the Kingdom of Judah. Historically, Egypt was known for its strong cavalry, which played a key role in its military campaigns.and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt The phrase "countless troops" suggests an overwhelming force, creating a sense of intimidation and inevitability. This vast army would have been a coalition of various groups, reflecting the diverse nature of Shishak's forces. The mention of "countless" emphasizes the seemingly insurmountable odds faced by Rehoboam and Judah. This aligns with other biblical narratives where God's people face overwhelming enemies, such as the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem (2 Kings 19).Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites These groups represent the diverse composition of Shishak's army. The Libyans were from the region west of Egypt, known for their warrior culture. The Sukkites are less well-documented, but they are believed to be a nomadic group possibly from the Sinai or Arabian regions. The Cushites, from the region south of Egypt (modern-day Sudan), were known for their strength and prowess in battle. This coalition reflects the extensive reach and influence of Egypt during Shishak's reign. The inclusion of these groups also highlights the historical alliances and enmities in the region, as well as the fulfillment of God's warnings to Israel about the consequences of disobedience (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-25.htm">Deuteronomy 28:25</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/s/shishak,_king_of_egypt.htm">Shishak, King of Egypt</a> The Pharaoh who invaded Judah during the reign of Rehoboam, Solomon's son. His military campaign is a significant event in the history of Israel and Judah. 2. <a href="/topical/r/rehoboam.htm">Rehoboam</a> The son of Solomon and king of Judah at the time of Shishak's invasion. His reign was marked by a division of the kingdom and spiritual decline. 3. <a href="/topical/l/libyans,_sukkites,_and_cushites.htm">Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites</a> These groups were part of Shishak's army. They represent the diverse and formidable forces that came against Judah. 4. <a href="/topical/e/egypt.htm">Egypt</a> The nation from which Shishak launched his invasion. Egypt was a powerful and influential kingdom in the ancient Near East. 5. <a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a> The southern kingdom of Israel, ruled by Rehoboam, which faced the threat of Shishak's invasion.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_disobedience.htm">The Consequences of Disobedience</a> Rehoboam's failure to follow God's commandments led to vulnerability and invasion. Disobedience to God often results in negative consequences. <a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_complacency.htm">The Danger of Complacency</a> Judah's spiritual decline under Rehoboam's leadership made them susceptible to external threats. Believers must remain vigilant in their faith and commitment to God. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a> Shishak's invasion was allowed by God as a form of judgment. This reminds us that God is sovereign and uses even adversities to fulfill His purposes. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_repentance.htm">The Importance of Repentance</a> Later in the chapter, Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah humble themselves, and God shows mercy. Repentance can lead to restoration and divine intervention. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_diverse_forces.htm">The Role of Diverse Forces</a> The inclusion of various groups in Shishak's army illustrates how God can use diverse means to accomplish His will. Believers should recognize God's hand in all circumstances.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_chronicles_12.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Chronicles 12</a> <a href="/q/did_judah's_kings_follow_or_stray_from_god.htm">How did Judah's kings follow or stray from God?</a> <a href="/q/why_is_'cainan'_in_luke_3_36_omitted_elsewhere.htm">Luke 3:36 - How do we address the mention of 'Cainan' in Luke's genealogy when some Old Testament texts appear to omit this name?</a> <a href="/q/is_zerah's_1m_army_in_2_chr_14_9_plausible.htm">In 2 Chronicles 14:9, is it historically plausible for Zerah the Ethiopian to muster an army of one million men?</a> <a href="/q/king_asa's_reforms_and_challenges.htm">What were King Asa's major reforms and challenges?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_chronicles/12.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(3) With twelve hundred chariots.--The short account in Kings says nothing of the numbers or constituents of the invading host. The totals here assigned are probably round numbers founded on a rough estimate. The cavalry are exactly fifty times as many as the chariots. Thenius finds the numbers "not in credible."The Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethi-opians.--Rather, Lybians, Sukkiyans, and Cushites (without the definite article). These were "the people"--i.e., the footmen. The Lybians and Cushites are mentioned together as auxiliaries of Egypt in <a href="/nahum/3-9.htm" title="Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were your helpers.">Nahum 3:9</a>. (Comp. <a href="/2_chronicles/16-8.htm" title="Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because you did rely on the LORD, he delivered them into your hand.">2Chronicles 16:8</a>.) The Sukkiyans are unknown, but the LXX. and Vulg. render Troglodytes, or cave-dwellers, meaning, it would seem, the Ethiopian Troglodytes of the mountains on the western shore of the Arabian Gulf. (Comp. sukko, "his lair," <a href="/psalms/10-9.htm" title="He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.">Psalm 10:9</a>.)<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_chronicles/12.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 3. - Twelve hundred chariots. The parallel does not give the numbers. These are large, but not inconsistent with those mentioned in other connections, whether those of Solomon, or, going further back, of Pharaoh. Lubims. The letter s is orthographically redundant in this, as also in the following names, the forms being already plural. The Lubim mean the Libyans, west of Egypt. They are probably the people represented on the Egyptian monuments as Lebu, of Semitic type, subjugated by Egypt's kings in the thirteenth century B.C. They were among the oldest of colonists, that drifted along the coast of Africa, north of the Great Desert, from the East, and are perhaps the same as the Lehabim (<a href="/genesis/10-13.htm">Genesis 10:13</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/16-8.htm">2 Chronicles 16:8</a>; <a href="/nahum/3-9.htm">Nahum 3:9</a>; <a href="/daniel/11-43.htm">Daniel 11:43</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/46-9.htm">Jeremiah 46:9</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/38-5.htm">Ezekiel 38:5</a>). Sukkiims. Probably an Arab tribe, though the Septuagint Version gives Τρωγοδύται, as though taking them for Troglodytes in the hills west of the Red Sea; so, too, the Vulgate. Gesenius at once renders the סֻכִּיִּים tent-dwellers, and sets the people in question down for some African tribe. They are not mentioned elsewhere so as to be recognized. Ethiopians. These were ethnically Cushites, but the territorial application of the term was confined to the African Cushite settlers. It is remarkable that, in <a href="/2_chronicles/21-16.htm">2 Chronicles 21:16</a>, Ethiopians are classed with Arabians, but otherwise with African peoples, and in particular Egypt (<a href="/psalms/68-31.htm">Psalm 68:31</a>; <a href="/isaiah/20-3.htm">Isaiah 20:3, 4</a>; <a href="/isaiah/43-3.htm">Isaiah 43:3</a>; <a href="/isaiah/45-14.htm">Isaiah 45:14</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/46-9.htm">Jeremiah 46:9</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/30-5.htm">Ezekiel 30:5</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/38-5.htm">Ezekiel 38:5</a>). They were many-tribed, and the Sabaeans were a leading tribe of them. It is evident that Shishak could draw from a large and varied dominion subject to his dynasty at this time. <a href="/commentaries/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>with 1,200 בְּאֶ֤לֶף (bə·’e·lep̄) Preposition-b | Number - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_505.htm">Strong's 505: </a> A thousand chariots, רֶ֔כֶב (re·ḵeḇ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7393.htm">Strong's 7393: </a> A vehicle, a team, cavalry, a rider, the upper millstone 60,000 {} וּבְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים (ū·ḇə·šiš·šîm) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8346.htm">Strong's 8346: </a> Sixty horsemen, פָּרָשִׁ֑ים (pā·rā·šîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6571.htm">Strong's 6571: </a> A steed, a driver, cavalry and countless וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên) Conjunctive waw | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_369.htm">Strong's 369: </a> A non-entity, a negative particle troops לָעָ֞ם (lā·‘ām) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock who אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that came בָּ֤אוּ (bā·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go with him עִמּוֹ֙ (‘im·mōw) Preposition | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5973.htm">Strong's 5973: </a> With, equally with out of Egypt— מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם (mim·miṣ·ra·yim) Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4714.htm">Strong's 4714: </a> Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa Libyans, לוּבִ֥ים (lū·ḇîm) Noun - proper - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3864.htm">Strong's 3864: </a> Lubim -- inhabitants of North Africa Sukkites, סֻכִּיִּ֖ים (suk·kî·yîm) Noun - proper - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5525.htm">Strong's 5525: </a> A Sukkite and Cushites. וְכוּשִֽׁים׃ (wə·ḵū·šîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3569.htm">Strong's 3569: </a> Cushite -- descendant of Cush <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">2 Chronicles 12:3 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">2 Chronicles 12:3 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">2 Chronicles 12:3 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">2 Chronicles 12:3 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">2 Chronicles 12:3 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">2 Chronicles 12:3 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">2 Chronicles 12:3 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">2 Chronicles 12:3 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">2 Chronicles 12:3 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">2 Chronicles 12:3 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/12-3.htm">OT History: 2 Chronicles 12:3 With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 12:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 12:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 12:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 12:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>