The Bible, as far as I can tell, never identifies a people group based on their skin color. Notice this description from Isaiah as he speaks a prophecy against the people of Cush:
Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by waters.
Cush consisted of parts of modern day Ethiopia and Sudan. People from these countries are tall and smooth-skinned, even to this day. They are also black. But the Lord, speaking through Isaiah, failed to mention this fact. Instead of skin color, the Lord described the Cushites using other characteristics—height, skin quality, stance toward outsiders, language, the land they lived upon.
While noting these various aspects, the Lord remained most interested in whether the people of Cush followed him. After a devastating season described by Isaiah, a dramatic conversion was to occur. Isaiah writes that gifts will be brought to the Lord Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned…
Which strikes me, because I work with several followers of Jesus from the region formerly known as Cush. These men and women serve the Lord devotedly, and indeed bring their gifts before him. I’m better for knowing them, and proud to be their friend. Fascinating to see a promise in scripture fulfilled in their lives.
Which again has nothing to do with the color of their skin.
Isaiah 18 in week thirty-four of reading the Bible cover to cover
Photo by Emmanuel Ikwuegbu
Focus on Jesus, because people will be people. It’s about character and the intentions of the heart in action. It’s not a black are white people, It’s righteousness are unrighteousness. It’s love are hateful people, they all show with actions that’s their character the unique people who love God. God is love that’s the division between love and hate.
The description is found in the masoretic text, I am looking at it in La Reina Valera (spanish translation) right now, but it is completely different in the KJV, which in Isaiah 18:7, omits the phrase people of elevated stature, and people of brilliant complextion in the masoretic text is rendered “people tall and smooth of skin”. I understand though, their transcribing from differing manuscripts.
Fact that cush is father of nilotes people and Cushites and cush kingdom extended upto modern Ethiopia,Sudan somalia and the upper part of modern Kenya I think bible talks about Kikuyu land.
Bible don’t talk about bantu speakers Soo talks about strange speaking ppl because the Bible knows nilotes speaking people Cushites speaking and could have just said so but here it talks about a strange language people dark who are feared(maumau) whose land is divided by rivers ( from nyeri to kiambu a lot of valleys and rivers)
Indeed this bible chapter talks about Kenya whole of Kenya.
My opinion
Kikuyu people are bantus and very short. It’s ridiculous to even mention them here.
LISTEN PEOPLE THE KING JAMES VERSION DOES NOT MAKE REFERENCE TO TALL, SMOOTH OR DARK SKINNED PEOPLE IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH CHAPTER 18 THOUGH THE CUSHITES WERE SUCH! BE CAREFUL OF WHATS WRITTEN THESE DAYS AS GOD SAID NOT TO EITHER ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM HIS WORD!!! AND THATS EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY!
So in other words?
There is no another Tall and dark-smooth skinned people apart from South Sudanese. It is truly mean South Sudan
Ian a Nilote kalenjin tribe is black skin , is it the one the prophet said in Isaiah 28 : 1- 7.
The land of beyond the river , tall,dark skinned is South Sudan
I don’t know enough about the land just thought if aliens are real…well you can imagine my thoughts on that.
“Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smoothed-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.”
Im still reading but my insides responded like when you jump off the high dive.
You NEED JESUS. I feel sorry for you.
Amen. I’ve come to the understanding that this was Cush as well… Ethiopia and Sudan.
However, it says that the land described in verse 1 is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia and sends messengers to a people talk and smooth of skin… Which land is that? There’s a difference from that land and who they’re sending the messengers to.
The land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia is Kenya. The Nilotic tribes of Kenya are tall and dark.
So this is the truth the prophet saw from Israel ; that is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia is Kenya.
Jeremiah 13:23 NLT Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin?
Can a leopard take away its spots?
Neither can you start doing good,
for you have always done evil.
Song of Solomon 1:5 I am dark (shachor Definition: black), but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
Like the tents of Kedar,
Like the curtains of Solomon.
That’s the English translation. When you look at the original you’ll be surprised.
Can you share what the original writing states?
It could be brother I also think the same