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Cush 1

approximate location

approximately equvalent to Ethiopia

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ANCIENT NAMES

  • Kush Egyptian

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Skip the map 15°E 20°E 25°E 30°E 35°E 40°E 45°E 50°E 28°N 32°N 36°N 40°N Nile Nile Lud LUD ? Libya LIBYA Hamath Hamath Great Sea Great Sea Elam ELAM Assyria ASSYRIA Arabia ARABIA Jerusalem Jerusalem Egypt EGYPT Babylon Babylon Cush CUSH 200 mi scriptoria.digital Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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city known location approximate debated 11 places · 2 outside this view · c. AD 30-62 · modern coastline: harbors have silted up over two thousand years · drag and zoom · Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

WITH EGYPT · PUT · JERUSALEM · ASSYRIA AND 8 MORE, named in the same passages

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Pyramids of Nuri in Cush 1.

Pyramids of Nuri in Cush 1.

PHOTO: Bruce Allardice CC BY-SA 2.0 Wikimedia Commons

ANOTHER PLACE CALLED CUSH

16 PASSAGES · 7 BOOKS

2 Kings 1
Psalms 2
Isaiah 6
Jeremiah 1
Ezekiel 4
Nahum 1
Zephaniah 1

COORDINATES 16.9351, 33.7508

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