Acts 8:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

He arose

A man

Queen

1 Kings 10:1

Matthew 12:42

And had

John 12:20

General references

Zephaniah 3:10

Luke 22:10

Bible References

He arose

telling them, “Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to Me.

So He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him.

“Do whatever He tells you,” His mother told the servants.

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going.

A man

Ambassadors will come from Egypt;
Cush will stretch out its hands to God.

“I will mention those who know Me:
Rahab, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—
each one was born there.”

I will say to the north: Give them up!
and to the south: Do not hold them back!
Bring My sons from far away,
and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

This is what the Lord says:

The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush
and the Sabeans, men of stature,
will come over to you
and will be yours;
they will follow you,
they will come over in chains
and bow down to you.
They will confess to you:
God is indeed with you, and there is no other;
there is no other God.

Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your radiance.

I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, Lud (who are archers), Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away—who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. And they will proclaim My glory among the nations.

Can the Cushite change his skin,
or a leopard his spots?
If so, you might be able to do what is good,
you who are instructed in evil.

But Ebed-melech, a Cushite court official employed in the king’s palace, heard Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate,

“Go tell Ebed-melech the Cushite: This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill My words for harm and not for good against this city. They will take place before your eyes on that day.

From beyond the rivers of Cush
My supplicants, My dispersed people,
will bring an offering to Me.

Queen

The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s fame connected with the name of Yahweh and came to test him with difficult questions.

The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look—something greater than Solomon is here!

And had

Even for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel
but has come from a distant land
because of Your name—

Even for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel
but has come from a distant land
because of Your great name
and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm:
when he comes and prays toward this temple,

Because of Your temple at Jerusalem,
kings will bring tribute to You.

No foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord
should say,
“The Lord will exclude me from His people”;
and the eunuch should not say,
“Look, I am a dried-up tree.”

Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.

General references

From beyond the rivers of Cush
My supplicants, My dispersed people,
will bring an offering to Me.

“Listen,” He said to them, “when you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters.