Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million troops and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.
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Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million troops and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.
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The historical record: Historical demography estimates the population of Kush around 900 BCE in the low hundreds of thousands at most. (Smithsonian) · 3 documented
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