2 Chronicles 14:12

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, “LORD, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, LORD our God; for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. LORD, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

13Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar. So many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves, for they were destroyed before the LORD and before his army. Judah’s army carried away very much booty.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:41At the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the day, all of the LORD’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 14:25He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians!”

Deuteronomy 32:39“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

1 Chronicles 5:21They took away their livestock: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.

2 Chronicles 15:11They sacrificed to the LORD in that day, from the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.

Psalms 60:12Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.

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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