Ethiopia in the holly Bible

Here are all the verses in the Bible that mention Ethiopia (or Cush, the name used for Ethiopia in some translations):

  1. Genesis 2:13 - "The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush."
  2. Genesis 10:6 - "The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan."
  3. Psalm 68:31 - "Envoys will come from Egypt; Cush will submit herself to God."
  4. Psalm 87:4 - "I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me—Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush—and will say, ‘This one was born in Zion.'"
  5. Isaiah 11:11 - "In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean."
  6. Isaiah 18:1 - "Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush."
  7. Isaiah 20:3 - "Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,"
  8. Isaiah 37:9 - "Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:"
  9. Jeremiah 13:23 - "Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil."
  10. Ezekiel 29:10 - "Therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush."
  11. Ezekiel 30:4 - "A sword will come against Egypt, and anguish will come upon Cush. When the slain fall in Egypt, her wealth will be carried away and her foundations torn down."
  12. Nahum 3:9 - "Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were among her allies."
  13. Acts 8:27 - "So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means ‘queen of the Ethiopians’). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,"
  14. Acts 8:38 - "And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him."
  15. Jeremiah 38:7 - "But Ebed-Melek, a Cushite, an official in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,"
  16. Amos 9:7 - "Are not you Israelites the same to me as the Cushites?" declares the Lord. "Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?"
  17. Zephaniah 3:10 - "From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, my scattered people, will bring me offerings."
  18. Esther 1:1 - "This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush:"
  19. 2 Chronicles 12:3 - "With 1,200 chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites that came with him from Egypt,"
  20. 2 Chronicles 14:9 - "Zerah the Cushite marched out against them with an army of thousands upon thousands and three hundred chariots,"
  21. 2 Chronicles 16:8 - "Were not the Cushites and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen? Yet when you relied on the Lord, he delivered them into your hand."
  22. Isaiah 43:3 - "For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead."
  23. Jeremiah 46:9 - "Charge, you horses! Drive furiously, you charioteers! March on, you warriors—men of Cush and Put who carry shields, men of Lydia who draw the bow."
  24. Ezekiel 30:5 - "Cush and Libya, Lydia and all Arabia, Kub and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt."
  25. Isaiah 20:5 - "They will be dismayed and put to shame because of Cush their hope and Egypt their boast."
  26. Isaiah 37:10 - "“Tell Hezekiah king of Judah, ‘Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.”"
  27. Ezekiel 38:5 - "Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets,"
  28. Esther 8:9 - "At once the royal secretaries were summoned—on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai’s orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush. These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language."
  29. Joel 3:8 - "I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken."

Note that some translations may use different spellings or variations of the name "Ethiopia" or "Cush."

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