Genesis 2:13

2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through ¹  the entire land of Cush. ² 

Genesis 10:7-8

10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, ³  Havilah, ⁴  Sabtah, ⁵  Raamah, ⁶  and Sabteca. ⁷  The sons of Raamah were Sheba ⁸  and Dedan. ⁹ 

10:8 Cush was the father of ¹⁰  Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

¹ tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

² sn Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so KJV, CEV), but here it must refer to a region in Mesopotamia, the area of the later Cassite dynasty of Babylon. See Gen 10:8 as well as E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 20.

³ sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.

⁴ sn The Hebrew name Havilah apparently means “stretch of sand” (see HALOT 297 s.v. חֲוִילָה). Havilah’s descendants settled in eastern Arabia.

⁵ sn The descendants of Sabtah settled near the western shore of the Persian Gulf in ancient Hadhramaut.

⁶ sn The descendants of Raamah settled in southwest Arabia.

⁷ sn The descendants of Sabteca settled in Samudake, east toward the Persian Gulf.

⁸ sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.

⁹ sn The name Dedan is associated with àUla in northern Arabia.

⁵ tn Heb “fathered.” Embedded within Cush’s genealogy is an account of Nimrod, a mighty warrior. There have been many attempts to identify him, but none are convincing.