Isaiah 18:2

which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

Cross References (9)

  • Genesis 10:8–9 (4)

    Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

  • Isaiah 18:7 (4)

    At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely fear

  • 2 Chronicles 12:2–4 (3)

    In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jeru

  • 2 Chronicles 14:9 (3)

    Then Zerah the Cushite came against them with an army of 1,000,000 men and 300 chariots, and they advanced as far as Mar

  • 2 Chronicles 16:8 (3)

    Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He de

  • Isaiah 19:5–7 (2)

    The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

  • Exodus 2:3 (2)

    But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed th

  • Isaiah 30:2–4 (2)

    They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in

  • Ezekiel 30:9 (2)

    On that day messengers will go out from Me in ships to frighten Cush out of complacency. Anguish will come upon them on