2 Chronicles 14:14

14. They smote all the cities round about Gerar For probably the inhabitants of these cities were in league with Zerah, and had assisted in this war against Judah. With the much spoil of these cities, Asa was enabled to repair the serious losses his kingdom had sustained by the invasion of Shishak. 2 Chronicles 12:9.

“The defeat of the Egyptian army by Asa,” says Poole, “is without a parallel in the history of the Jews. On no other occasion did an Israelite army meet an army of one of the great powers and defeat it. Shishak was unopposed; Sennacherib was not met in the field; Necho was so met, but overthrew Josiah’s army; Nebuchadnezzar, like Shishak, was only delayed by fortifications. The defeat of Zerah thus is a solitary instance, more of the power of faith than of the bravery of the Hebrews a single witness that the God of Israel was still the same who had led his people through the Red Sea, and would give them the same aid if they trusted in him.”