Bible verses about "ethiopia" | Rotherham

¹³ And, the name of the second river, is Gihon,––the same, is that which surroundeth all the land of Cush.

¹ And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, on account of the Cushite woman whom he had taken,––for, a Cushite woman, had he taken.

⁸ Were not, the Ethiopians and the Lybians, a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst lean upon Yahweh, he delivered them into thy hand.

³ with twelve hundred chariots, and with sixty thousand horsemen,–and, without number, the people who came with him out of Egypt––Lybians, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.

¹ And it came to pass, in the days of Ahasuerus,––the same, Ahasuerus that reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty–seven provinces:

¹ Ho! thou land of the buzzing of wings,––Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: ² That sendeth, by the sea, ambassadors, Even in vessels of paper–reed, upon the face of the waters,––Go, ye swift messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and polished, Unto a people terrible from their beginning and onwards,––A nation most mighty and subduing, Whose land rivers, have cut through. ³ All ye inhabitants of the world, And ye, that dwell in the earth,––When there is lifted up an ensign on the mountains, Ye shall look, And, when there is blown a horn, Ye shall hearken. ⁴ For, thus, said Yahweh unto me,––I must be quiet, I must look on in my fixed place of abode,––Like a bright heat, on the light, Like a cloud of dew, in the heat of harvest. ⁵ For, before harvest, when the bud is perfect, And, the blossom, becometh, a ripening grape, Then will one cut down the twigs with pruning–hooks, And, the tendrils, will he remove [and] cast down: ⁶ They shall be left together, To the, ravenous birds, of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth,––Then shall the ravenous bird, summer upon them, And, every beast of the earth, upon them, shall winter.

² At that time, spake Yahweh, through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, And, thy sandal, draw thou off from thy foot,––And he did so, walking disrobed and barefoot. ³ Then said Yahweh,––As my servant Isaiah, hath walked, disrobed and barefoot, three years, as a sign and a wonder, against Egypt and against Ethiopia, ⁴ So, shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, disrobed and barefoot,––with their persons behind uncovered, the shame of Egypt. ⁵ Thus shall they be confounded, and turn pale,––For Ethiopia, their expectation, and, For Egypt, their boast; ⁶ And the inhabitant of this shore, shall exclaim, in that day, Lo! such, is our expectation, whereunto we fled for help, that we might be delivered from the presence of the king of Assyria! How then shall, we, escape?

⁴³ and he will have authority over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the delightful things of Egypt,––with Libyans and Ethiopians among his followers;

⁹ Then came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian, with a force of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots,––and he came as far as Mareshah. ¹⁰ And Asa went out to meet him,––and they set in array for battle, in the valley of Zaphonah, at Mareshah. ¹¹ Then Asa cried out unto Yahweh his God, and said, O Yahweh, it is, nothing with thee, to help whether with many or with such as have no strength. Help us, O Yahweh our God, for, on thee, do we lean, and, in thy name, have we come against this multitude,––O Yahweh! our God, thou art, let not, weak man, have power against thee. ¹² So Yahweh smote the Ethiopians, before Asa, and before Judah,––and the Ethiopians fled. ¹³ And Asa and the people that were with him pursued as far as to Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell, so that there was no way for them to recover, for they were routed before Yahweh, and before him host,––and they carried away exceeding much spoil. ¹⁴ And they smote all the cities round shout Gerar, for the dread of Yahweh was upon them,––and they plundered all the cities, for, great plunder, was there in them. ¹⁵ Moreover also, the tents of the cattle, they smote,––and carried off sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.

³ For, I––Yahweh, am, Thy God, The Holy One of Israel, Ready to save thee,––I have given, as thy ransom, Egypt, Ethiopia and Seba, in thy stead.

³¹ Ambassadors come out of Egypt, The Ethiopian, eagerly stretcheth out his hands, unto God.

⁷ Like the sons of the Ethiopians, are not ye, unto me, O sons of Israel? Demandeth Yahweh: Was it not, Israel, I brought up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines out of Caphtor, and the Syrians out of Kir?

²⁷ And, arising, he journeyed. And lo! a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, one in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure [who] had come to worship in Jerusalem;

²³ Can, the Ethiopian, change, his skin, Or, the leopard, his spots? Even, ye, may be able to do right, Who are accustomed to do wrong.

²⁷ And, arising, he journeyed. And lo! a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, one in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure [who] had come to worship in Jerusalem; ²⁸ And was returning, and, sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹ And the Spirit said unto Philip––Go near, and join thyself unto this chariot! ³⁰ And, running near, Philip heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said––Dost thou, then, understand what thou art reading? ³¹ And, he, said––How indeed should be able––unless someone shall guide me? And he called upon Philip, to come up and sit with him. ³² Now, the passage of Scripture which he was reading, was, this:––As a sheep, unto slaughter, was he led, and, as a lamb, before him that sheareth it, is dumb, so, he openeth not his mouth. ³³ In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away,––his generation, who shall describe? because, his life, is taken away from the earth. ³⁴ And the eunuch, making answer unto Philip, said––I pray thee! Of whom, is the prophet saying this? of himself, or, of some different person? ³⁵ And Philip, opening his mouth, and beginning from this scripture, told him the glad tidings of Jesus. ³⁶ And, as they were journeying along the way, they came unto a certain water,––and the eunuch saith––Lo! water! What doth hinder my being immersed? ³⁷ <> ³⁸ And he commanded the chariot to stand still; and they went down, both, into the water, both Philip and the eunuch,––and he immersed him. ³⁹ But, when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more; for he was going on his way rejoicing.