2 Chronicles 12:3

“With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen; and the people were without number, etc.] The foot soldiers; their number, according to Josephus f34 was 400,000: that came with him out of Egypt; the above numerous army came from thence with him, which was famous for horses and chariots of war, (see <021407> Exodus 14:7,28), what follow seem to have joined him after he came out of Egypt, or whom he subdued in his way; the Lubim or Lybians, inhabitants of Libya, a country near Egypt the same with the Lehabim; of whom (see <011013>Genesis 10:13), the Sukkiims; who were either the Scenite Arabs, who dwelt in tents, as this word signifies; or the Troglodytes, according to the…”

“the Lubims--the Libyans of northeastern Africa. the Sukkiims--Some think these were the Kenite Arabs, dwellers in tents, but others maintain more justly that these were Arab troglodytes, who inhabited the caverns of a mountain range on the western coast of the Red Sea. and the Ethiopians--from the regions south of Egypt. By the overwhelming force of numbers, they took the fortresses of Judah which had been recently put in a state of defense, and marched to lay siege to the capital. While Shishak and his army was before Jerusalem, the prophet Shemaiah addressed Rehoboam and the princes, tracing this calamity to the national apostasy and threatening them with utter destruction in consequence…”

“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 of 2,000 chariots (compare the 1 Kings 20:1 note). The Lubims or “Libyans” Daniel 11:43, were a people of Africa, distinct from the Egyptians and the Ethiopians dwelling in their immediate neighborhood. They were called Ribu or Libu by the Egyptians. See Genesis 10:13. Sukkiims - This name does not occur elsewhere. The Septuagint, who rendered the word “Troglodytes,” regarded the Sukkiim probably as the “cave-dwellers” along the western shore of the Red Sea; but the conjecture that the word means…”

“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 those beyond Egypt, or the Arabians. 2 Chronicles 12:7”

“12:3 Sukkites are not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible but are known from Egyptian history as Libyans from the oases of the western desert. • and Ethiopians: Shishak was an Ethiopian from southern Egypt.”

“twelve hundred: Jdg 4:13; Sa1 13:5; Sa2 10:18 without number: Ch2 14:9; Jdg 6:5; Rev 9:16 Lubims: Lubim, apparently the same with Lehabim ( Gen 10:13), were probably the ancient inhabitants of Lybia (called Lubi in the Syriac version, Act 2:10), a district of Africa, adjoining to Egypt, and extending along the shore of the Mediterranean as far as the city of Cyrene. Ch2 16:8; Eze 30:5; Nah 3:9 the Sukkiims: The Sukkiim (from sachach, "to cover") are supposed to have been the Troglodites, as the LXX and Vulgate render, a people of Egypt, on the west of the Red Sea, so called because they dwelt εν τρωγλαις, in caves. Ethiopians: These Cushim were probably the inhabitants of Ethiopia, south of…”