What does 2 Chronicles 12:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"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 2 Chronicles 12:3. _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_] T...
TWELVE HUNDRED CHARIOTS - This number is not unusnal (compare Exodus 14:7; 1 Kings 10:26). Benhadad brought 1,200 chariots into the field against Shalmaneser II; and Ahabhad at the same time a force o...
CHAPTER 12 REHOBOAM'S APOSTASY, PUNISHMENT, AND DEATH _ 1. Rehoboam's apostasy (2 Chronicles 12:1)_ 2. Punishment through Shishak (2 Chronicles 12:2) 3. Death of Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 12:13) The k...
SHISHAK INVADES JUDAH; SUMMARY OF REHOBOAM'S REIGN; HIS DEATH (see notes on 1 Kings 14:21 f., 1 Kings 14:25; 1 Kings 14:29). The words in 2 Chronicles 12:2_ b_ (because they had trespassed.) to the en...
_with twelve hundred chariots_ The details given in this verse are absent from 1 Kin. _Lubims_ R.V. LUBIM (cp. 2 Chronicles 16:8). The "s" is not needed, "im" being a mark of the Heb. plural as in "C...
THE LUBIMS, THE SUKKIIMS— The _Lubims_ were a people of _Lybia,_ which adjoined to Egypt, and are sometimes in Scripture called _Phut,_ and sometimes _Lubims,_ from the Arabic word _Lub,_ which signif...
2. THE REIGN OF REHOBOAM (11-12) TEXT 2 Chronicles 11:1. And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, that were...
_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._ The Lubims - the Li...
REIGN OF REHOBOAM (CONCLUDED) This chapter is parallel to 1 Kings 14:21, but supplies additional particulars respecting Shishak's army and the prophet Shemaiah....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 12 REHOBOAM – 2 CHRONICLES 12:1-16 V1 Rehoboam established his rule as...
WITH TWELVE HUNDRED CHARIOTS. — The short account in Kings says nothing of the numbers or constituents of the invading host. The totals here assigned are probably round numbers founded on a rough esti...
בְּ אֶ֤לֶף וּ מָאתַ֨יִם֙ רֶ֔כֶב וּ בְ שִׁשִּׁ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף פָּרָשִׁ֑ים וְ אֵ֣ין מִסְפָּ֗ר לָ...
REHOBOAM AND ABIJAH: THE IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL 2 Chronicles 10:1; 2 Chronicles 11:1; 2 Chronicles 12:1; 2 Chronicles 13:1 THE transition from Solomon to Rehoboam brings to light a serious drawback of...
The issue was that Rehoboam "forsook the law of the Lord." The scourge came in the person of Israel's ancient foe, the king of Egypt. The patience of God is ever manifest in His dealing with His peopl...
With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people [were] without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the (b) Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. (b) Who were a...
_Troglodites, who dwell in caverns, near the Red Sea. Pliny ([Natural History?] v. 8., and vi. 29.) speaks of the city Suca, which in Hebrew means a tent, as here we read succiyim, (Haydock) "dwelling...
How gracious is the Lord in raising up instruments of correction!...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10, 11, AND 12. Solomon's faults are not related here for reasons which we have already pointed out; but the history of Rehoboam shows us the immediate fall...
WITH TWELVE HUNDRED CHARIOTS, AND THREESCORE THOUSAND HORSEMEN; AND THE PEOPLE WERE WITHOUT NUMBER,.... The foot soldiers; their number, according to Josephus h was 400,000: THAT CAME WITH HIM OUT OF...
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. Ver. 3. _The Lubims...
_The Lubims_ The people of Lybia, a famous country of Africa, adjoining to Egypt. And the _Sukkiims_ were the _Troglodytes_, a people who lived on the western side of the Red sea, and had that name fr...
1 Rehoboam forsaking the LORD, is punished by Shishak. 5 He and the Princes repenting at the preaching of Shemaiah, are deliuered from destruction, but not from spoile. 13 The reigne and death of Re...
REHOBOAM SUBDUED BY SHISHAK...
EGYPT ATTACKS JUDAH (vv.1-9) Rehoboam's prosperity however became his downfall. When he strengthened himself in his kingdom sufficiently to think himself secure, he gave up any regard he had for the...
THE LUBIMS; a people of Africa bordering upon Egypt; of whom SEE POOLE ON "2 CHRONICLES 16:8"; SEE POOLE ON "DANIEL 11:43"; SEE POOLE ON "NAHUM 3:9". THE SUKKIIMS; a people living in tents, as the wor...
2 Chronicles 12:3 hundred H505 H3967 chariots H7393 sixty H8346 thousand H505 horsemen H6571 people H5971 number H4557 came H935 (H8804) Lubim H3864 Sukkiim H5525 Ethiopians H3569 twelve hundred - Ju...
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._ They prospered, at first, b...
CONTENTS: Rehoboam defeated by Shishak. Death of Rehoboam. CHARACTERS: God, Rehoboam, Shishak, Shemaiah. CONCLUSION: It becomes us, when we are under the rebukes of providence, to justify God (2 Chr...
2 Chronicles 12:1. _Rehoboam forsook the law of the Lord._ His juvenile council, his harem of eighteen queens and sixty concubines, are lamentable proofs of the imbecility of his mind. The apple-tree...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter parallel with 1 Kings 14:21, but considerably enlarges the narrative contained in that passage. The account of Shishak’s chariots and horsemen, the composition of his arm...
EXPOSITION This chapter finishes for us the history of Rehoboam, his "acts" and his character; and, with the preceding two chapters, it may be counted among the masterpieces of Scripture biography. In...
It came to pass [chapter twelve], when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him (2 Chronicles 12:1). As the king goe...
1 Samuel 13:5; 2 Chronicles 14:12; 2 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Chronicles 16:8; 2 Samuel 10:18; Acts 2:10; Daniel 11:43; Ezekiel 30:5; Genesis 10:13;...
Lubims — A people of Africk bordering upon Egypt. Sukkiims — A people living in tents, as the word signifies; and such there were not far from Egypt, both in Africk and in Arabia. Ethiopians — Either...