(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.
Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman);
Then the king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" And the Cushite answered, "Let the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be as that young man!"
Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read to the people and come " So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and went to them.
The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah:
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