Cushite (Easton)

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The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom ( 2 Samuel 18:32 ). The father of Shelemiah ( Jeremiah 36:14 ). Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet ( Zephaniah 1:1 ). Moses married a Cushite woman ( Numbers 12:1 ). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush.