Skip to Content
Commentary Library

2 Chronicles 16:8

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Read in KJV Bible Reader

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.

Other commentaries on this verse

All commentaries on this verse

Other commentaries on this chapter