2 Chronicles 14:12

So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

In Context

11And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.

13And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:41And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the armies of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 14:25And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.

Deuteronomy 32:39See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.

1 Chronicles 5:21And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.

2 Chronicles 15:11And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

Psalms 60:12\60:10\Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 14:10-15

Asa Defeats the Ethiopians. ( b. c. 945.) 9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah. 10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. 11 And Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord , it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this… Read the whole commentary →

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