KJV 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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
2 Chronicles 12:3
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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—
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 12
1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
2 And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
3 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.
4 And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בְּאֶ֤לֶףH505 · e.lephthousandוּמָאתַ֙יִם֙H3967 · me.ahhundredרֶ֔כֶבH7393 · re.khevchariotוּבְשִׁשִּׁ֥יםH8346 · shish.shimsixtyאֶ֖לֶףH505 · e.lephthousandפָּרָשִׁ֑יםH6571 · pa.rashhorseוְאֵ֣יןH369 · a.yinnothingמִסְפָּ֗רH4557 · mis.parnumberלָעָ֞םH5971 · ampeopleאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichבָּ֤אוּH935 · boto come (in): comeעִמּוֹ֙H5973 · imwithמִמִּצְרַ֔יִםH4714 · mits.ra.yimEgyptלוּבִ֥יםH3864 · lu.viLibyanסֻכִּיִּ֖יםH5525 · suk.kiSukkiimוְכוּשִֽׁים׃H3569 · ku.shiEthiopian
Cross-references
2 Chronicles 16:8Were 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.Nahum 3:9Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.Daniel 11:43But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians [shall be] at his steps.Isaiah 43:3For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt [for] thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.Genesis 10:6-8And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.Revelation 9:16And the number of the army of the horsemen [were] two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.2 Chronicles 14:12So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.1 Samuel 13:5And 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.2 Chronicles 14:9And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.Judges 6:5For 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.Judges 4:13And 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.2 Samuel 10:18And 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.Ezekiel 30:5Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
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