^9 (A)Then Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came to ^(B)Mareshah.

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

^2 (A)And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord, ³ with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt—^(B)the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

⁸ Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

⁴⁴ Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages;

¹⁴ For they are spirits of demons, ^(A)performing signs, which go out to the kings ^[a]of the earth and of ^(B)the whole world, to gather them to ^(C)the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

⁵ “Ethiopia, ^[a]Libya, ^[b]Lydia, ^(A)all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword.”