What Does the Bible Say About Kush?

Isaiah 18:1-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ah, land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush, which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide. All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear! For thus the Lord said to me: “I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away. ...

Acts 7:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

John 21:15-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.” (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.” ...

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 6:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ...

Luke 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

During the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Luke 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Mark 10:17-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” ...

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ...

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, ...

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all choice spices—

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Deuteronomy 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Exodus 30:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane,

Genesis 23:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead.”

Genesis 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ...

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 12:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.

Revelation 4:1-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, ...

Revelation 1:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 9:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Genesis 8:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah.

34 Bible Verses about Kush

Isaiah 18:1-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 7:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 21:15-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:17-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 30:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 23:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 12:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 4:1-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 1:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 9:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 8:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Kush

Isaiah 18:1-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 7:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 21:15-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Mark 10:17-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 30:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 23:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 12:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 4:1-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

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Isaiah 18:1-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 7:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 21:15-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:17-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 30:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 23:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 12:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 4:1-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 1:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 9:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 8:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote