⁹ Zerah the Cushite^(A) marched out against them with an army of thousands upon thousands and three hundred chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.^(B)

⁸ Were not the Cushites^[a](A) and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers^(B) of chariots and horsemen^[b]? Yet when you relied on the Lord, he delivered^(C) them into your hand.

² Some people came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army^(A) is coming against you from Edom,^[a] from the other side of the Dead Sea. It is already in Hazezon Tamar^(B)” (that is, En Gedi).^(C)