2 Chronicles 16:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bible Comments

Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen?.... They were no less than 1,000,000 men, and three hundred chariots, 2 Chronicles 14:9, the Lubim were the Libyans, a people near Egypt, that dwelt in Africa; according to an Arabic writer l, they were the Nubians:

yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thine hand; and with equal ease could and would have delivered the Syrian army unto him, had he as then trusted in the Lord.

l Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. dyn. 3. p. 57.

2 Chronicles 16:8

8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a hugeb host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.