2Sa 18:31, 1Ki 18:7 | TSK | STEP | Tidings. Heb. Tidings is brought. the Lord. Cushi was the man Joab ordered to carry the tidings to David. He was an Ethiopian, as his name signifies, and some think he was so by birth--a black, who waited on Joab, probably one of the ten who had helped to dispatch Absalom; though it was dangerous for one of those to bring the news to David, lest his fate should be the same with theirs that reported the death of Saul and Ishbosheth to him.

2 Samuel 18:31

Tidings. Heb. Tidings is brought. the Lord.

19,28; 22:48,49; De 32:35,36; Ps 58:10; 94:1-4; 124:2,3; Lu 18:7,8Cushi was the man Joab ordered to carry the tidings to David. He was an Ethiopian, as his name signifies, and some think he was so by birth--a black, who waited on Joab, probably one of the ten who had helped to dispatch Absalom; though it was dangerous for one of those to bring the news to David, lest his fate should be the same with theirs that reported the death of Saul and Ishbosheth to him.

1 Kings 18:7

was in the way.

11:29

he knew.

2Ki 1:6-8; Mt 3:4; 11:8

fell on.

Ge 18:2; 50:18; 1Sa 20:41; 2Sa 19:18; Isa 60:14

my lord Elijah.

Ge 18:12; 44:16,20,33; Nu 12:11