2 Chronicles 12 · Verse 3

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.

2 Chronicles 12:3, King James Version

2 Chronicles 12:3 in other translations

BSB	with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.
WEB	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	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	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--
DARBY	with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: Libyans, Sukkites, and Ethiopians.
BBE	With twelve hundred war-carriages and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him out of Egypt were more than might be numbered: Lubim and Sukkiim and Ethiopians.
Webster	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.

What does 2 Chronicles 12:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 12:3-5

3-5. the Lubims--the Libyans of northeastern Africa. the Sukkiims--Some think these were the Kenite Arabs, dwellers in tents, but others maintain more justly that these were Arab troglodytes, who inhabited the caverns of a mountain range on the western coast of the Red Sea. and the Ethiopians--from the regions south of Egypt. By the overwhelming force of numbers, they took the fortresses of Judah which had been recently put in a state of defense, and marched to lay siege to the capital. While Shishak and his army was before Jerusalem, the prophet Shemaiah addressed Rehoboam and the princes, tracing this calamity to the national apostasy and threatening them with utter destruction in consequence of having forsaken God (2Ch 12:6).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 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.

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2 Chronicles 12:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּאֶ֤לֶףbe.'E.lefwith one thousandH505

וּמָאתַ֙יִם֙u.ma.Ta.yimand two hundredH3967

רֶ֔כֶבRe.khevchariot[s]H7393

וּבְשִׁשִּׁ֥יםu.ve.shi.Shimand with sixtyH8346

אֶ֖לֶף'E.lefthousandH505

פָּרָשִׁ֑יםpa.ra.ShimhorsemenH6571

וְאֵ֣יןve.'Einand notH369

מִסְפָּ֗רmis.ParnumberH4557

לָעָ֞םla.'Am[belonged] to the peopleH5971

אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whichH834

בָּ֤אוּBa.'uthey cameH935

עִמּוֹ֙i.Mowith himH5973

מִמִּצְרַ֔יִםmi.mitz.Ra.yimfrom EgyptH4714

לוּבִ֥יםlu.VimLibyansH3864

סֻכִּיִּ֖יםsu.ki.YimSukkitesH5525

וְכוּשִֽׁים\׃ve.khu.Shimand CushitesH3569

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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 12:3

Nahum 3:9
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
2 Chronicles 16:8
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.
Daniel 11:43
But 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.
Revelation 9:16
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
1 Samuel 13:5
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 Beth–aven.
Isaiah 43:3
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.
Judges 6:5
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.
2 Samuel 10:18
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.
2 Chronicles 14:12
So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
Judges 4:13
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.
Ezekiel 30:5
Ethiopia, 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.
Genesis 10:6-8
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

twelve hundred.
Jud 4:13; 1Sa 13:5; 2Sa 10:18
without number.
14:9; Jud 6:5; Re 9:16
Lubims.Lubim, apparently the same with Lehabim (Ge 10:13,) were probably the ancient inhabitants of Lybia, (called Lubi in the Syriac version, Ac 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; Eze 30:5; Na 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; Isa 43:3; Da 11:43; Na 3:9
Cushim. Heb.
Ge 10:6-8

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Context

2 Chronicles 12:2
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,
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.
2 Chronicles 12:4
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 12:3 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Con mil y doscientos carros, y con sesenta mil hombres de á caballo: mas el pueblo que venía con él de Egipto, no tenía número; á saber, de Libios, Sukienos, y Etiopes.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	avec 1 200 chars et 60 000 cavaliers; et le peuple qui vint avec lui d’Égypte, Libyens, Sukkiens, et Éthiopiens, était sans nombre;
German Elberfelder 1871	und ohne Zahl war das Volk, welches mit ihm aus Ägypten kam: Libyer, Sukkiter und Äthiopier.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	cum mille ducentis curribus, et sexaginta millibus equitum: nec erat numerus vulgi quod venerat cum eo ex Ægypto, Libyes scilicet, et Troglodytæ, et Æthiopes.