2 Chronicles 14

2 Chronicles 14:1

ten years] Yet likely some small skirmishes there were, 1 King. XV. 16, 32.

2 Chronicles 14:10

Mareshah] A Citie in the North-West part of the tribe of Judah, Josh. XV. 44. There Michah the Prophet was borne, Michah I. 1. And here as we see, in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah, Asa overthrew the hugest hoast that ever we read of, (Xerxes army not excepted) of Zerah the Ethiopian.

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Gerar] Gerar anciently a Citie and Kingdome of the Philistines; whose Kings seeme all to be called Abimelechs; where Abraham, and Isaac, a while lived; both offending in denying their wives, Gen. XX. and XXVI. Isaac leaving the Citie, dwelt in the valley of Gerar. Gen. XXVI. 17. a most fruitful valley, ver. 12. as it were the Granarie of Canaan, when famine was elsewhere in the Land, ver. 1. Here Isaac digged againe the Wells of water, digged by Abraham, and stopped by the Philistines: And he digged others new. After Gerar fell to the tribe of Simeon. And hither, as we see, Asa pursued the Ethiopians: and smote all the Cities round about Gerar.