Bible Strands
Zephaniah 3:10
From beyond the rivers of Cush My worshipers, My scattered people, will bring Me an offering.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — YHWH addresses Judah and Jerusalem in a prophetic declaration of future restoration following a period of judgment. The speech occurs within a sequence of promises regarding purified worship and the removal of national shame.
The words — כ֑וּשׁ (Khush) = Cush and מִנְחָתִֽ/י\׃ (min.cha.T/i) = offering/my. The text states that the prophet declares distant worshipers will physically bring a gift to God.
The thread — The geographic marker and gathering motif appear in Psalms 68:31, Isaiah 11:11, and Isaiah 18:1. These references consistently pair the southern region of Cush with the future gathering of nations to Yahweh.
Why it lands — The text asserts that God will relocate His dispersed people from remote territories to present worship to Him. A reader must acknowledge that divine restoration requires the physical and spiritual gathering of scattered communities to a single focal point of devotion.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
Cross-references
- Psalms 68:31 Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.
- Isaiah 11:11 On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
- Isaiah 18:1 Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,
- Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen
- Psalms 72:8 May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
- Isaiah 18:7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 27:12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
- Isaiah 49:20 Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
- Isaiah 60:4 Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.