CUB in Eze 30:5 is almost certainly a corruption of Lub (i.e. Lybia), as was read by Septuagint. The 'Libya' of AV is a mistranslation of Put (see RV). Cf. Na 3:9, where Lybians are mentioned along with Cush (Ethiopia), Egypt, and Put, as here; also 2Ch 12:3; 16:8.
with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.
"Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim an immense army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.
"Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, Libya and the people of the land that is in league will fall with them by the sword."
Ethiopia was her might, And Egypt too, without limits Put and Lubim were among her helpers.
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