Lybia and Lydia— Or, Mauritania and Abyssinia. All the mingled people, mean their mercenaries and auxiliaries; Chub means the Chubians, placed by Ptolemy in the Mareotis. "I do not know (says Calmet) whether the name of Egypt may not be derived from Cub, or Cubti, or Gubti;—Egubti." The men of the land that is in league, mean the neighbouring people, who were confederate with the Egyptians against the king of Babylon.

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