Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 12:3
Verse 3. The Lubims] Supposed to be a people of Libya, adjoining to Egypt; sometimes called Phut in Scripture, as the people are called Lehabim and Ludim. The Sukkiims] The Troglodytes, a people of Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea. They were called Troglodytes, trwglodutai, oi tav trwglav oikountev, "because they dwelt in caves." - Hesych. This agrees with what Pliny says of them, Troglodytae specus excavant, haec illis domus; "The Troglodytes dig themselves caves; and these serve them for houses." This is not very different from the import of the original name µyyks Sukkiyim, from hks sachah, to cover or overspread; (hence ūws such, a tabernacle;) the people who were covered (emphatically) under the earth.
The Septuagint translate by the word trwglodutai, Troglodytes.
The Ethiopians.] µywk Cushim. Various people were called by this name, particularly a people bordering on the northern coast of the Red Sea; but these are supposed to have come from a country of that name on the south of Egypt.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen; and the people were without number , etc.] The foot soldiers; their number, according to Josephus 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 14:7,28), 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
