John Gill Commentary 2 Chronicles 16:8

"Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst rely on Jehovah, he delivered them into thy hand." — 2 Chronicles 16:8 (ASV)

Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with very
many chariots and horsemen ?
&c.] They were no less than 1,000,000 men, and three hundred chariots, (2 Chronicles 14:9), the Lubim were the Libyans, a people near Egypt, that dwelt in Africa; according to an Arabic writer ^F12 , they were the Nubians:

yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thine
hand ;
and with equal ease could and would have delivered the Syrian army to him, had he as then trusted in the Lord.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F12: Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. dyn. 3. p. 57.