Study it in the app“Are you not like the children of the Cushites to me, children of Israel? declares YHWH. Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and Aram from Kir?”
Are you notהֲלוֹא אַתֶּםlike the childrenכִבְנֵיof the Cushitesכֻשִׁיִּיםto me,לִיchildrenבְּנֵיof Israel?יִשְׂרָאֵלdeclaresנְאֻםYHWH.יְהוָהDid I notהֲלוֹאbringהֶעֱלֵיתִיIsraelיִשְׂרָאֵלup from the landמֵאֶרֶץof Egypt,מִצְרַיִםand the Philistinesוּפְלִשְׁתִּיִּיםfrom Caphtor,מִכַּפְתּוֹרand Aramוַאֲרָםfrom Kir?מִקִּיר
descendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “vene” appearsCushite
Cushite: a person from Cush, the region south of Egypt (toward present-day Sudan). Joab's messenger is called this (2 Samuel 18), and so is Ebed-melech, who pulled Jeremiah out of the cistern (Jeremiah 38). In the plural, the Cushites as a people. It says nothing good or bad about the person, only where they come from.
Where else “chushiyim” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearsdeclaration
Solemn words God himself speaks: "oracle of YHWH".
Where else “neum” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsbring up
To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".
Where else “heeleti” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearsPhilistines
Philistines: a people that settled on the south-west coast of Canaan and was Israel's enemy in the days of the judges and of David.
Where else “felishtiyim” appearsCaphtor
Caphtor, an island or coast from which the Philistines came (Amos 9:7).
Where else “kaftor” appearsAram
Aram, a son of Shem; also the land of the Arameans (Syria) and its people; also other men.
Where else “aram” appearsKir
Kir. The name of two places: 1) a distant region to which the king of Assyria carried the people of Damascus into exile (2 Kings 16:9; Amos 1:5), and from which, according to Amos 9:7, the Arameans had come; 2) a city of Moab (Isaiah 15:1).
Where else “kir” appearsEgypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
6the one who builds in the heavens his upper chambers, and has founded his arch on the earth; the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth: YHWH is his name.
7 · This verse (above)
8Look, the eyes of Adonai YHWH are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the ground; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, declares YHWH.
