Isaiah 18:2
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2 which (A)sends ambassadors by the sea,
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation (B)tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation (C)mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.
Isaiah 18:7
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7 (A)At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of hosts
from a people (B)tall and smooth,
from a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide,
to (C)Mount Zion, the place of the (D)name of the Lord of hosts.
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Genesis 10:8-9
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8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.[a] 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
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- Genesis 10:8 Or he began to be a mighty man on the earth
2 Chronicles 16:8
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8 Were not (A)the Ethiopians and (B)the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet (C)because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand.
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2 Chronicles 14:9
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9 Zerah (A)the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as (B)Mareshah.
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2 Chronicles 12:2-4
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2 (A)In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, (B)Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem 3 with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt—(C)Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians. 4 And he took (D)the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 30:9
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9 “On that day (A)messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting (B)people of Cush, and (C)anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt's doom;[a] for, behold, it comes!
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- Ezekiel 30:9 Hebrew the day of Egypt
Isaiah 30:2-4
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2 (A)who set out to go down to Egypt,
without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
3 (B)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
4 For though his officials are at (C)Zoan
and (D)his envoys reach (E)Hanes,
Isaiah 19:5-7
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5 And the waters of the sea will be dried up,
and the river will be dry and parched,
6 and its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.
7 There will be bare places by the Nile,
on the brink of the Nile,
and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched,
will be driven away, and will be no more.
Exodus 2:3
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3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes[a] and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the (A)reeds by the river bank.
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- Exodus 2:3 Hebrew papyrus reeds
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