Ethiopia in Easton's Bible Dictionary
country of burnt faces; the Greek word by which the Hebrew
Cush
is rendered (Gen. 2:13; 2 Kings 19:9; Esther 1:1;
Job 28:19; Ps.
68:31; 87:4), a country which lay to the south of
Egypt,
beginning at Syene on the First Cataract (Ezek.
29:10; 30:6),
and extending to beyond the confluence of the White
and Blue
Nile. It corresponds generally with what is now
known as the
Soudan (i.e., the land of the blacks). This country
was known to
the Hebrews, and is described in Isa. 18:1; Zeph.
3:10. They
carried on some commercial intercourse with it (Isa.
45:14).
Its inhabitants were descendants of Ham (Gen. 10:6;
Jer.
13:23; Isa. 18:2, "scattered and peeled," A.V.; but
in R.V.,
"tall and smooth"). Herodotus, the Greek historian,
describes
them as "the tallest and handsomest of men." They
are frequently
represented on Egyptian monuments, and they are all
of the type
of the true negro. As might be expected, the history
of this
country is interwoven with that of Egypt.
Ethiopia is spoken of in prophecy (Ps. 68:31; 87:4;
Isa.
45:14; Ezek. 30:4-9; Dan. 11:43; Nah. 3:8-10; Hab.
3:7; Zeph.
2:12).
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