Today the a series of pyramids in Sudan mark the remains of the kingdom of Meroe. The country of Sudan has a rich biblical history and many of these ancient sites remain untouched by archaeology. Many scholars in the country are in a race against time because modern hydro-electric dams that are being built are flooding many important archaeological sites.
If we can trust what the Bible says historically, I believe we can trust what it says spiritually. A Christian in the first century met a man from Sudan on the desert road from Jerusalem to Gaza. It is my prayer that many modern-day Sudanese would likewise hear the good news about Jesus — his love for us, and his offer of forgiveness for our sins — and respond in faith.
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Again, we find Cush is not of Africa but really in Asia. Aswan is the current name for Syene. It represented the southern end of Egypt. If Cush were Ethiopia it would not make sense to say Egypt would be destroyed from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia or from the southern end of Egypt to a nation even farther south. This would be like saying America will be destroyed from Texas to Guatemala.
That would not represent America. If Egypt were only partially destroyed they really would not be scattered. For the passage in Ezekiel to make sense Cush would have to meet up with Egypt somewhere in the northern part of the country. Again, Ethiopia cannot be Cush. Cush had to be a country between the Nile and the Euphrates. The yellow area shown in the picture represents the land between Aswan or Syene and the top of Eritrea that has been associated with Ethiopia in the past.
The orange zone shows an area that would extend to the current limits of northern Ethiopia. If you believe that Ethiopia is Cush, Ezekiel would then be saying that Egypt would be destroyed from the top of the yellow area to the top or the bottom of the orange area depending on what border you use for Ethiopia.
These areas are approximate and do not include the gratuitous squiggles that most maps have. The actual limits are not important. What is important to note is that Ethiopia cannot be Cush according to Ezekiel The real people here were from Cush. From Ezekiel 29 we know that Cush was not at the southern end of Egypt but instead the northern border as shown above. This places them in the northern Sinai and Arabian Peninsulas and not Ethiopia.
Cush cannot be said to be next to another country because its name is next to the country in the text. In the section above Philistines and Arabians are mentioned in the same verse and are also identified as being near each other physically. In some cases the names are mentioned together in the text but are not together physically.
Mizraim is Egypt in Africa. Cush's sons were in Asia and his grandson, Nimrod, was in Babylon. Isaiah lists multiple countries together, " And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush , and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Cush is mentioned with Midian. Habakkuk says, " I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. It sounds like they are close together but can we say for sure based on this? Other verses translate Cush as Ethiopia and mention it with other countries but do not express any certain physical connection between them. There is a similarity in ancient Egypt between the name Kash and Cush but it does not mean they were the same.
Based on name similarity, Cush would be far away from Ethiopia. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran. He is also mentioned in 2 Samuel , 23, 31 and Another use of the name is in Jeremiah , " Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi , unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come.
So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them. This is incorrect. The Septuagint is not a valid translation. Hebrew cannot really be preserved in Greek.
The acrostic in Psalm is lost in translation. The full set of multiple meanings in Hebrew words is not preserved in Greek when translated and new meanings are added in Greek. The Septuagint is included the Apocrypha which contains errors and it introduces errors in the main text starting in Genesis. For more information see Is the Septuagint Accurate? Their account disagrees with scripture saying Solomon had wives and concubines. In 1 Kings chapter 10 we have the account of the Queen of Sheba. Following her visit to King Solomon, 1 Kings says, " So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
The Ethiopian story disagrees with the Bible. It is false. Also notice that Cush and Sheba are different nations. If you belong to the nation of Sheba you cannot belong to the nation of Cush. Even in Ezekiel 38 and 39 the nations are mentioned separately. To claim that Ethiopians are the nation of Cush because they are from Sheba, which they are not, is bogus.
The issue of Cush is not just academic. Cush plays a part of Ezekiel 38 and It is also used for a reference in Isaiah 18 which may be more important to us than Ezekiel The Cush empire might have been large and migrated with the residual being left in Ethiopia, but Cush cannot, and should not, be translated as Ethiopia.
The United States borders, for example, have changed in location. The people came from Europe and started with only 13 colonies. The country spread westward. Finally, in it came to include Hawaii and Alaska. If the east fell, and we hope not, the United States would still be in the west.
The boundaries for countries do change.
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