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Cushan
Probably a poetic or prolonged name of the land of Cush, the Arabian Cush (Hab 3:7). Some have, however, supposed this to be the same as Chushan-rishathaim (Judg 3:8, Judg 3:10), i.e., taking the latter part of the name as a title or local appellation, Chushan “of the two iniquities” (= oppressing Israel, and provoking them to idolatry), a Mesopotamian king, identified by Rawlinson with Asshur-ris-ilim (the father of Tiglathpileser I.); but incorrectly, for the empire of Assyria was not yet founded. He held Israel in bondage for eight years.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Habakkuk 3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
