12So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
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Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever: …
The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Here is, I. Disturbance given to the peace of Asa’s kingdom by a formidable army of Ethiopians that invaded them, 2 Chron. 14:9 , 10 . Though still they sought God, yet this fear came upon them, that their faith in God might be tried, and that God might have an opportunity of doing great things for them. It was a vast number that the Ethiopians brought against him: 1,000,000 men ; and now he found…
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