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• The Cushite WomanPeople

  The Cushite woman (KJV: "Ethiopian woman") is the wife whom Moses married, according to Numbers 12. She appears in the account in which Miriam and Aaron used this marriage as a pretext for speaking against Moses. Her name is not recorded.

• Zerah (the Cushite)People

  Zerah was a Cushite who led a vast army as far as Mareshah in the days of King Asa of Judah and was defeated. He appears only in 2 Chronicles 14.

• Ebed-melechPeople

  Ebed-melech was a Cushite eunuch in the palace of King Zedekiah during the final years of the Kingdom of Judah. He rescued the prophet Jeremiah, who had been left to die in a cistern, and for this deed he received God's promise of deliverance.

• CushBible

  Cush is the name the Old Testament uses for the region of the upper Nile south of Egypt and for its people. It is also the name of a son of Ham. The Septuagint rendered it "Ethiopia."

• Zephaniah (Prophet)People

  Zephaniah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered during the reign of King Josiah of Judah. The Old Testament Book of Zephaniah preserves his prophecies, in which he proclaimed judgment on "the day of the LORD" and the restoration of the remnant.

• Numbers 12Bible

  Numbers 12 recounts how Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses over his Cushite wife, how God affirms Moses' unique standing, and how Miriam is struck with leprosy and shut out of the camp for seven days.

• Valley of ZephathahBible

  The Valley of Zephathah is a valley near Mareshah where King Asa of Judah confronted the vast army of Zerah the Cushite (Ethiopian). In the Old Testament it appears only in 2 Chronicles 14.

• Jeremiah 38Bible

  Jeremiah 38 recounts how, near the end of the siege of Jerusalem, the princes cast Jeremiah into a miry cistern, Ebed-melech the Cushite rescues him, and King Zedekiah secretly summons him and hears the word urging him to surrender.

• 2 Chronicles 14Bible

  2 Chronicles 14 records how Asa, king of Judah, came to the throne, removed idols, and fortified cities so that the land enjoyed peace, and how he met and defeated the vast army of Zerah the Ethiopian (Cushite) through prayer.

• JehudiPeople

  Jehudi was an official in the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah. Sent by the princes, he summoned Baruch, and he later read aloud before the king the scroll containing Jeremiah's prophecies. He appears only in Jeremiah 36.

• Zephaniah 1Bible

  Zephaniah 1 records the word that came to Zephaniah in the days of Josiah. It indicts Judah and Jerusalem for idolatry and religious indifference and proclaims the coming judgment of the "day of the LORD."

• HazerothBible

  Hazeroth was an encampment where the Israelites stopped after Kibroth-hattaavah during their wilderness journey following the Exodus. There Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, and Miriam was stricken with leprosy.

• LibyaBible

  Libya (Lubim) is the biblical name for the land of North Africa west of Egypt and for its people. In the Old Testament its people appear alongside the Egyptian army; in the New Testament the region is named as a place of origin for the crowd gathered in Jerusalem at Pentecost.

• Cushan-rishathaimPeople

  Cushan-rishathaim is a king of Mesopotamia who appears in Judges 3. Early in the period of the judges, he ruled over Israel for eight years and was defeated by Othniel, the first judge.

• NimrodPeople

  Nimrod is a son of Cush and grandson of Ham who appears in Genesis 10. The Bible describes him as one who "began to be a mighty one in the earth" and as "a mighty hunter before the LORD," and it associates him with cities such as Babel and Nineveh.

• RaamahPeople

  Raamah is a figure in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10: a son of Cush, a grandson of Noah's son Ham, and the father of Sheba and Dedan. In the Book of Ezekiel, the same name refers to an Arabian people who traded with Tyre.

• TirhakahPeople

  Tirhakah was a king of Cush (the Nubian region of the upper Nile) mentioned in 2 Kings 19 and Isaiah 37. He appears only in a report that he had come out to fight against Assyria when the Assyrian king Sennacherib attacked Judah.

• Isaiah 18Bible

  Isaiah 18 is a prophecy concerning Cush, the land along the upper Nile. It portrays the LORD quietly watching until the appointed time, when He judges like one who cuts off branches before the harvest. Afterward the people of Cush bring gifts to Mount Zion.

• Genesis 10:6Bible Verses

  Genesis 10:6 lists the four sons of Ham, the son of Noah: Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan. The verse is frequently discussed for two reasons: the question of which regions and peoples these names designate, and the past misuse of the so-called "curse of Ham" to justify racial discrimination.