2 Chronicles 12:3 (KJV)

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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

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twelve hundred. Re 3:13 1Sa 13:5 2Sa 10:18

without number. 2Ch 14:9 Re 5:5 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. 2Ch 16:8 Eze 30:5 Na 3:9

Ethiopians.These Cushim were probably the inhabitants of Ethiopia, south of Egypt. 2Ch 14:12 2Ch 16:8 Isa 43:3 Da 11:43 Na 3:9

Cushim. Heb. Ge 10:6-8

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.

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