⁷ “Are you not like the Cushites¹
to Me,
O children of Israel?”declares the LORD.
“Did I not bring Israel
up from the land of Egypt,
the Philistines from Caphtor,²
and the Arameans from Kir?

¹ That is, people from the upper Nile region

² That is, Crete

Backlinks: [1 Chronicles 1:12, Genesis 10:14]