⁹ Zerah ^(A)the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as ^(B)Mareshah.

⁸ Were not ^(A)the Ethiopians and ^(B)the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet ^(C)because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand.

^2 (A)In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, ^(B)Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem ³ with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt—^(C)Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.

⁸ Gath, ^(A)Mareshah, Ziph,

^44 (A)Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.

¹⁴ For they are ^(A)demonic spirits, ^(B)performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, ^(C)to assemble them for battle on ^(D)the great day of God the Almighty.

^5 (A)Cush, and ^(B)Put, and Lud, and ^(C)all Arabia, and Libya,^[a] and the people of the land that is in league,^[b] shall fall with them by the sword.