Moment of Meditation: Cush (Genesis 10:6)

The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. Genesis 10:6

As we get to Ham’s sons, we have some of Israel’s greatest antagonists throughout their history.

Ham’s firstborn, Cush, is better known as Ethiopia. Cush settled in the upper Nile region south of Egypt. Considerably far-flung to the eyes of the Israelites, Cush was one of the places from where the scattered remnant would return to Israel. The fact that Israelites were in Cush is seen from the Ethiopian eunuch who was travelling back from Jerusalem in Acts 8. He was reading a copy of the scroll of Isaiah. Philip the Evangelist shared the Gospel with him. Tradition says he established the Church in Ethiopia. Christianity has thrived in Ethiopia throughout the centuries so that even today, the largest Lutheran church body in the world is the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. Although Cush was the son of Ham, God’s blessings still rest upon his descendants. Amen.