ETHIOPIA

Passages on this topic · 67

• Genesis 10:6

  The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

• Numbers 12:1

  Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

• 2 Kings 19:9

  When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,

• 1 Chronicles 1:9

  The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

• 2 Chronicles 12:3

  with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

• 2 Chronicles 14:9

  Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million troops and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

• 2 Chronicles 14:10

  Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

• 2 Chronicles 14:11

  Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

• 2 Chronicles 14:12

  So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

• 2 Chronicles 14:13

  Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and so many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh and before his army; and they carried away very much booty.

• 2 Chronicles 14:14

  They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them, and they plundered all the cities; for there was much plunder in them.

• 2 Chronicles 14:15

  They also struck the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 16:8

  Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.

• Esther 1:1

  Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

• Psalms 68:31

  Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

• Psalms 87:4

  I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: “This one was born there.”

• Isaiah 11:11

  It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

• Isaiah 18:1

  Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

• Isaiah 18:2

  that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”

• Isaiah 18:3

  All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

• Isaiah 18:4

  For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

• Isaiah 18:5

  For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

• Isaiah 18:6

  They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.

• Isaiah 20:2

  at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

• Isaiah 20:3

  Yahweh said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,

• Isaiah 20:4

  so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

• Isaiah 20:5

  They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

• Isaiah 20:6

  The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’”

• Isaiah 43:3

  For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

• Isaiah 45:14

  Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains; and they will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

• Jeremiah 13:23

  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

• Jeremiah 38:7

  Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

• Jeremiah 38:8

  Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,

• Jeremiah 38:9

  “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”

• Jeremiah 38:10

  Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.”

• Jeremiah 38:11

  So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

• Jeremiah 38:12

  Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.” Jeremiah did so.

• Jeremiah 38:13

  So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

• Jeremiah 39:15

  Now Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

• Jeremiah 39:16

  “Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before you in that day.

• Jeremiah 39:17

  But I will deliver you in that day,’ says Yahweh; ‘and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.

• Jeremiah 39:18

  For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put your trust in me,’ says Yahweh.”

• Jeremiah 46:9

  Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots! Let the mighty men go out: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.

• Ezekiel 29:10

  therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.

• Ezekiel 30:4

  A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish 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.

• Ezekiel 30:5

  Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, shall fall with them by the sword.

• Ezekiel 30:6

  Yahweh says: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: they shall fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 30:7

  They shall be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the middle of the cities that are wasted.

• Ezekiel 30:8

  They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.

• Ezekiel 30:9

  In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.

• Ezekiel 38:5

  Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

• Daniel 11:43

  But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

• Habakkuk 3:7

  I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.

• Zephaniah 2:12

  You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

• Acts 8:27

  He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

• Acts 8:28

  He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

• Acts 8:29

  The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

• Acts 8:30

  Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

• Acts 8:31

  He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

• Acts 8:32

  Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

• Acts 8:33

  In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

• Acts 8:34

  The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”

• Acts 8:35

  Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

• Acts 8:36

  As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

• Acts 8:37
• Acts 8:38

  He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

• Acts 8:39

  When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.