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The ancient Kingdom of Kush covers much of modern-day Sudan. Notice the word "compasseth" is present tense, not past tense.
The river was not destroyed by the great flood. It survived it. A river did not feed into this system from Ethiopia. Also, note that Genesis and 6 tell us Cush was the grandson of Noah. The nation of Cush did not exist until after the great flood. Assyria is also mentioned in verse 14 which is not recorded in pre-flood times.
The reference would have to be valid to regions before and after the great flood. Cush is the correct translation and refers to land in Asia, not Africa. Notice that Cush's son founded Babylon which is in Iraq, not Ethiopia. The sons settled in Asia, not Ethiopia. The cities, such as Nineveh, were in Asia.
Canaan was the Promised Land. Josephus, in Antiquities Book 1 Chapter 6. See Can the Historian Josephus be Trusted? Josephus, in Antiquities Book 1 Chapter 3. Look what the Bible says:. Noah and his descendents journeyed from the east to the plain in the land of Shinar. Josephus locates Mount Ararat in Turkey northwest of Babylon.
After Babylon was settled and began to built the people of the world spread out and formed the many nations. Josephus has the ark in the wrong country and he has the people of the earth separating before Babylon. In Book 1 Chapter 6. Josephus' reference is not valid. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
Cush, not Ethiopia was associated with Midian. Exodus says, " Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. Mount Horeb is associated with Midian as well.
Moses was married to a woman named Zipporah from this area, not a woman from Africa in Ethiopia. Exodus says, " And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. Exodus chapter 18 also mentions Jethro seven times and shows it in the context of a Midian priest and not a person from Ethiopia.
In another location in the Bible, Judges says, " Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years. Chushan or "Kuwshan" comes from "Kuwsh" which is translated "Cush".
The king was the king of the Cush and he was the king of Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers and refers to the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates. It was in Iraq. The actual Hebrew says aram naharayim. This means the Aram of the two rivers. A single man could not be born in three different places; Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia. It must instead refer to the heritage of the Psalmist. In this passage the real world is Cush. Israel came from Jacob whose grandfather was Abram.
In Genesis God changed Abram's name to Abraham. Abraham came from Ur in southern Iraq which is in the lower in end of Mesopotamia. Psalm 87 makes sense when you understand that Cush included Ur at one time. It does not make sense if you believe Ethiopia is Cush. 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.
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