he heard

1 Samuel 23:27,28
lorsqu'un messager vint dire à Saül: Hâte-toi de venir, car les Philistins ont fait invasion dans le pays.…

Ethiopia.

1. The country watered by the Gihon or Araxes,

Genèse 2:13
Le nom du second fleuve est Guihon; c'est celui qui entoure tout le pays de Cusch.

, also called Cuth,

2 Rois 17:30
Les gens de Babylone firent Succoth-Benoth, les gens de Cuth firent Nergal, les gens de Hamath firent Aschima,

.

2. A country of Arabia Petraea, bordering upon Egypt, which extended from the northern extremity of the Red sea along its eastern shore.

3. Ethiopia Proper, an extensive country of Africa, comprehending Nubia and Abyssinia; being bounded on the north by Egypt, on the east by the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and on the south and west by various nations of Africa, and extending from about

6 degrees to

24 degrees n. lat. and

2 Rois 17:25
Lorsqu'ils commencèrent à y habiter, ils ne craignaient pas l'Eternel, et l'Eternel envoya contre eux des lions qui les tuaient.

to

45 east long. It is probable that it was this latter Cush, or Ethiopia, of which Tirhakah was king; he being in league with his kinsman Sevechus, son of So, or Sabacon, king of Egypt, against Sennacherib, the king of Assyria.