Isaiah 18:2
That sendeth envoys by the yam, 1 even in vessels of gomeh (papyrus) upon the mayim, saying, 1 Go, ye swift malachim, to a Goy (nation) tall and smooth of skin, 1 to an Am Norah far away on the other side; 1 a Goy powerful and treading down, 1 whose land the neharim (rivers) divide! 1
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Genesis 10:8And Cush fathered Nimrod; he began to be a gibbor in ha'aretz.
2 Chronicles 12:2And it came to pass, that in the shanah hachamishit of Melech Rechav'am Shishak Melech Mitzrayim came up against Yerushalayim, because they were unfaithful to Hashem,
2 Chronicles 16:8Were not the Cushim and the Luvim a huge army, with very many chariots and parashim? Yet, because thou didst rely on Hashem, He delivered them into thine yad.
Isaiah 19:5And the mayim shall roll back from the yam, 1 and the Nile shall be parched and dried up. 1
Ezekiel 30:9In that day shall malachim go forth from Me in ships to make the complacently secure Ethiopians afraid, and great anguish shall come upon them, as in the Yom Mitzrayim; for, hinei, it cometh.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 18:2-7
Judgments Denounced. ( b. c. 712.) 1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when… Read the whole commentary →