Ethiopia
e-thi-o'-pi-a (kush; Aithiopia):
1. Location, Extent and Population:
Critically speaking Ethiopia may refer only to the Nile
valley above the First Cataract, but in ancient as in modern
times the term was often used not only to include what is
now known as Nubia and the Sudan (Soudan), but all the
unknown country farther West and South, and als...
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(A region in Africa, inhabited by the descendants of Ham)
-The inhabitants of, black
Jer 13:23
-Within the Babylonian empire
Es 1:1
-Rivers of
Ge 10:6; Isa 18:1
-Bordered Egypt on the south
Eze 29:10
-Was called the land of Cush, mentioned in
Ge 10:6; 1Ch 1:9; Isa 11:11
-Warriors of
Jer 46:9; 2Ch 12:3; Eze 38:5
-Defeated by Asa
2Ch 14...
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(burnt faces). The country which the Greeks and Romans
described as "AEthiopia" and the Hebrews as "Cush" lay to the
south of Egypt, and embraced, in its most extended sense, the
modern Nubia, Sennaar, Kordofan and northern Abyssinia, and in
its more definite sense the kingdom of Meroe. Eze 29:10 The
Hebrews do not appear to have had much prac...
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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 ...
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Hebrew; Cush. (See CUSH; BABYLON.) Isaiah 11:11. S. of
Egypt. Now Nubia, Sennaar, Kordofan, and N. Abyssinia. In a
stricter sense the kingdom of Meroe from the junction of the
Blue and the White Nile to the border of Egypt. Syene on the
N. marked the boundary from Egypt (Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel
30:6). The Red Sea was on the Ethiopia, the Libyan...
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Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third
month, that [is], the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth
[day] thereof; and it was written according to all that
Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and
the deputies and rulers of the provinces which [are] from
India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and se...
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Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of
Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over
unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after
thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down
unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, [saying],
Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is] n...
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And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be
in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they
shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be
broken down....
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Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this [is]
Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, [over]
an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)...
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