9 But then Zerah the Kushite (or Ethiopian) came out against them with an army of a million soldiers and three hundred chariots, and he advanced to Mareshah. 10 Asa went out to oppose them, and they deployed for battle in the Tsefatah valley near Mareshah. 11 Then King Asa called out to his god Yahweh, “Yahweh, it makes no difference to you if there’s one against you, or one million. Help us, Yahweh our god, because we rely on you, and we’ve come against this massive force trusting in your reputation. Yahweh, you’re our god—don’t let mere humans prevail against you.”

12 So Yahweh helped Asa and the army from Yehudah to defeat the Cushites, and they fled. 13 Asa and his army chased them southwest as far as Gerar. So many Kushites were killed that the rest couldn’t save themselves, because they had been destroyed in front of Yahweh and his army, and the men of Yehudah carried away a large amount of plunder. 14 They struck all the cities around Gerar, because the Kushites there were terrified of Yahweh. The men from Yehudah plundered all those cities, because they contained a lot of valuable goods. 15 They also attacked the Kushite cattle herdsmen, as well as capturing lots of sheep and camels before returning to Yerushalem.