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2 Chronicles 12:3-5
New Catholic Bible
2 Chronicles 12:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. In addition, he also brought with him from Egypt a vast army beyond counting—Libyans, Sukkites,[a] and Ethiopians.
4 After Shishak had captured the fortified cities of Judah and had arrived at the outskirts of Jerusalem, 5 the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and the commanders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them: “Thus says the Lord: ‘You have abandoned me, and therefore I have abandoned you to the power of Shishak.’ ”
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- 2 Chronicles 12:3 Sukkites: a people of east Africa; see the Suco of whom Strabo speaks, and the modern Suakim.