2 Samuel 18:31

KJV_Strongs⁽ⁱ⁾

31 H3569 And, behold, Cushi H935 came [H8802] H3569 ; and Cushi H559 said [H8799] H1319 , Tidings [H8691] H113 , my lord H4428 the king H3068 : for the LORD H8199 hath avenged [H8804] H3117 thee this day H3027 of all them H6965 that rose up [H8801] against thee.

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Tidings. Heb. Tidings is brought. the Lord.
2 Samuel 18:19; 2 Samuel 18:28; 2 Samuel 22:48; 2 Samuel 22:49; Deuteronomy 32:35; Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalms 58:10; Psalms 94:1-4; Psalms 124:2; Psalms 124:3; Luke 18:7; Luke 18:8Cushi was the man Joab ordered to carry the tidings to David. He was an Ethiopian, as his name signifies, and some think he was so by birth--a black, who waited on Joab, probably one of the ten who had helped to dispatch Absalom; though it was dangerous for one of those to bring the news to David, lest his fate should be the same with theirs that reported the death of Saul and Ishbosheth to him.