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Want to know what the Bible says about Africa? Here are 30 Bible verses about Africa from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Acts 10:34-35 NIV
34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.
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Psalm 68:31 NIV
Envoys will come from Egypt;
    Cush will submit herself to God.
38
Daniel 11:43 NIV
He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and Cushites in submission.
38
Amos 9:7-8 NIV
7 “Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites ?”
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines from Caphtor
    and the Arameans from Kir?
8 “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.
36
Genesis 2:11 NIV
The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
36
Numbers 12:1 NIV
Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite.
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Jeremiah 46:9 NIV
Charge, you horses!
    Drive furiously, you charioteers!
March on, you warriors—men of Cush and Put who carry shields,
    men of Lydia who draw the bow.
29
Isaiah 45:14 NIV
This is what the Lord says:
“The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
    and those tall Sabeans
they will come over to you
    and will be yours;
they will trudge behind you,
    coming over to you in chains.
They will bow down before you
    and plead with you, saying,
‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other;
    there is no other god. ’”
25
Ezekiel 29:10 NIV
therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.
20
2 Chronicles 14:12 NIV
The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,
20
Romans 8:35 NIV
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
16
Genesis 2:13 NIV
The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
16
1 Chronicles 1:10 NIV
Cush was the father ofNimrod, who became a mighty warrior on earth.
14
Esther 1:1 NIV
This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush :
14
Isaiah 43:3 NIV
For I am the Lord your God,
    the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I give Egypt for your ransom,
    Cush and Seba in your stead.
13
Isaiah 11:11 NIV
In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean.
12
Genesis 25:18 NIV
His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them.
12
Jeremiah 39:15-18 NIV
15 While Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him: 16 “Go and tell Ebed-Melek the Cushite, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words against this city—words concerning disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes. 17 But I will rescue you on that day, declares the Lord; you will not be given into the hands of those you fear. 18 I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the Lord.’”
12
Psalm 72:10 NIV
May the kings of Tarshish and of distant shores
    bring tribute to him.
May the kings of Sheba and Seba
    present him gifts.
11
2 Chronicles 21:16-17 NIV
16 The Lord aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs who lived near the Cushites. 17 They attacked Judah, invaded it and carried off all the goods found in the king’s palace, together with his sons and wives. Not a son was left to him except Ahaziah, the youngest.
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