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Verse 3

With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen; and the people were without number ,.... The foot soldiers; their number, according to Josephus F8 Antiqu. l. 8. c. 10. sect. 2. 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 Exodus 14:7 , 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 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 Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, who dwelt in dens and caves, in which sense the word "Succah" is sometimes used, Job 38:40 and in their country was a town called Suchae, mentioned by Pliny F9 Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 29. ; they inhabited near the Red sea; and if Shishak is the same with Sesostris, as is thought, these people were subdued by him, as Herodotus F11 Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 102. and Strabo F12 Geograph. l. 16. p. 529. testify:

and the Ethiopians ; some think these were the Cushite Arabs, and that Sesostris came into Arabia is testified by the above writers; though rather the proper Ethiopians are meant, since they are joined with the Lubim or Africans; and since, as Herodotus F13 Ut supra, (Euterpe, sive, l. 2.) c. 110. says, he ruled over Ethiopia; and Diodorus Siculus F14 Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 50. says he fought with them, and obliged them to pay him tribute.

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