Reference: Cush
Hastings
CUSH in OT designates Ethiopia, and is the only name used there for that region. It is the same as the Egyptian Kash or Kesh. Broadly speaking, it answers to the modern Nubia. More specifically, the Egyptian Kash extended southwards from the first Cataract at Syene (Eze 29:10), and in the periods of widest extension of the empire it embraced a portion of the Sudan. It was conquered and annexed by Egypt under the 12th Dynasty (c. b.c. 2000) and remained normally a subject country. After the decline of the 22nd (Libyan) Dynasty, the Cushites became powerful and gradually encroached on northern Egypt, so that at length an Ethiopian dynasty was established (the 25th, 728
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The name of the second river is the Gihon. It winds through the entire land of Cush.
Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth.
Someone from Ethiopia was standing there. Joab told him: Go tell the king what you have seen. The man knelt down in front of Joab and then got up and started running.
Sennacherib heard that King Tirhakah of Sudan was coming to fight him. Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying:
Zerah from Ethiopia led an army of a million soldiers and three hundred chariots to the town of Mareshah in Judah.
Later Jehovah caused the Philistines and the Arabs who lived near the Ethiopians to become angry with Jehoram.
Woe to the land of whirring wings which lies beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (Cush).
Can Ethiopians change the color of their skin or leopards change their spots? Can you do good when you are taught to do wrong?
Then all the officials sent Jehudi, who was the son of Nethaniah, the grandson of Shelemiah, and the great-grandson of Cushi, to Baruch. Jehudi said to Baruch: Bring the scroll that you read publicly, and come with me. Baruch, son of Neriah, took the scroll and went with him to see the officers.
Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch (officer) who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate.
I am against you and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.
Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? Said Jehovah. Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?