Bible Verses about βcushβ
The Bible contains 50 verses about cush across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βBehold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.β
βRemember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.β
βWhen thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.β
βSince thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.β
βAnd the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.β
βΒΆ And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.β
βΒΆ But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine.β
βI, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.β
βYe [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.β
β[Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.β
βHe was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.β
βPersia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:β
βAnd the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.β
βFor I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt [for] thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.β
βAnd Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.β
βFear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;β
βThe sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.β
βThe beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.β
βThou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.β
βΒΆ And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.β
βI, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no saviour.β
βThis people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.β
βAnd the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.β
βThus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;β
βI will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;β
βOut of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,β
βWhich bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.β
βPut me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.β
βAnd the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.β
βBy these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.β
βAnd the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.β
βAnd Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great city.β
βΒΆ Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.β
βI have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when [there was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God.β
βI [am] the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.β
βThus 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] none else, [there is] no God.β
βAnd the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.β
βAnd Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,β
βAnd Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.β
βΒΆ And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,β
βAnd the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,β
βAnd the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,β
βAnd the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.β
βThese [are] the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations.β
βΒΆ Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.β
βLet all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, [It is] truth.β
βYea, before the day [was] I [am] he; and [there is] none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?β
βΒΆ Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry [is] in the ships.β
βΒΆ But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.β
βThou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.β
