2 Chronicles 14:12
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New International Version (©2011)
The LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,

New Living Translation (©2007)
So the LORD defeated the Ethiopians in the presence of Asa and the army of Judah, and the enemy fled.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So the LORD defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So the LORD routed the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So the LORD routed the Cushites before Asa and before Judah, and the Cushites fled.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So the Lord defeated the Ethiopians right in front of Asa and Judah, and the Ethiopians ran away.

NET Bible (©2006)
The LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD attacked the Sudanese army in front of Asa and Judah. The Sudanese army fled.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So the LORD defeated the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

American King James Version
So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

American Standard Version
So Jehovah smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord terrified the Ethiopians before Asa and Juda: and the Ethiopians fled.

Darby Bible Translation
And Jehovah smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

English Revised Version
So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

Webster's Bible Translation
So the LORD smote the Cushites before Asa, and before Judah; and the Cushites fled.

World English Bible
So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah smiteth the Cushim before Asa, and before Judah, and the Cushim flee,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:1-15 Asa's piety, He strengthens his kingdom. - Asa aimed at pleasing God, and studied to approve himself to him. Happy those that walk by this rule, not to do that which is right in their own eyes, or in the eye of the world, but which is so in God's sight. We find by experience that it is good to seek the Lord; it gives us rest; while we pursue the world, we meet with nothing but vexation. Asa consulted with his people how to make a good use of the peace they enjoyed; and concluded with them that they must not be idle, nor secure. A formidable army of Ethiopians invaded Asa's kingdom. This evil came upon them, that their faith in God might be tried. Asa's prayer is short, but it is the real language of faith and expectation from God. When we go forth in God's name, we cannot but prosper, and all things work together for the good of those whom he favours.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - So the Lord smote the Ethiopians. As little as the real work was of the army of Asa, so little is said of even the mere human method by which this great victory was obtained for Asa and Judah. Again and yet again, in the following two verses, the glory is given to "the Lord."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah,.... With consternation and terror; they were thrown into a panic:

and the Ethiopians fled; before them, just as Jeroboam and Israel had, as related in the preceding chapter, 2 Chronicles 13:15.

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Asa Succeeds Abijah in Judah
…11And Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with you to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on you, and in your name we go against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let no man prevail against you. 12So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. 13And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them to Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil. …

2 Chronicles 12:3 With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites that came with him from Egypt,
2 Chronicles 13:15 and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. At the sound of their battle cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
Amos 9:7 "Are not you Israelites the same to me as the Cushites?" declares the LORD. "Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?