he heard

1.Samuel 23:27,28
Aber es kam ein Bote zu Saul und sprach: Eile und komm! denn die Philister sind ins Land gefallen.…

Ethiopia.

1. The country watered by the Gihon or Araxes,

1.Mose 2:13
Das andere Wasser heißt Gihon, das fließt um um das ganze Mohrenland.

, also called Cuth,

2.Koenige 17:30
Die von Babel machten Sukkoth-Benoth; die von Chut machten Nergal; die von Hamath machten Asima;

.

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.Koenige 17:25
Und da sie aber anhoben daselbst zu wohnen und den HERRN nicht fürchteten, sandte der HERR Löwen unter sie, die erwürgten sie.

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.