(1.) The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2Sa 18:32).
(2.) The father of Shelemiah (Jer 36:14).
(3.) Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (Zep 1:1).
(4.) Moses married a Cushite woman (Nu 12:1). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush.
Miriam and Aaron rebelled against Moses on account of the Cushite woman that he had married.
The king asked the Ethiopian, "Is the young man safe?" The Ethiopian answered, "May the enemies of your majesty the king including everyone who rebels and tries to harm you become like that young man"."
Then all the officials sent Nethaniah's son Jehudi, (who was also the grandson of Shelemiah and Cushi's great-grandson), to Baruch, who said, "Take the scroll that you read to the people and come." Neriah's son Baruch took the scroll with him and went to them.
This message from the Lord came to Cushi's son Zephaniah, the grandson of Gedaliah and great-grandson of Hezekiah's son Amariah, during the reign of Amon's son Josiah, king of Judah:
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