Sacred Atlas

Where Is It Today?

Where Is Cush Today?

Cush is identified with Meroe. See modern location, confidence level, Scripture references, coordinates, and source attribution.

Modern locationmodern identification under review
ConfidenceHigh
Scripture refs19

High confidence

Modern identification

Meroe - modern identification under review

Coordinates16.9351, 33.7507
Kindregion
Claims3
Sources2

Scripture anchors

2 Kgs 19:9Ps 68:31Ps 87:4Isa 11:11Isa 18:1Isa 20:3Isa 20:4Isa 20:5Isa 37:9Isa 43:3Isa 45:14Jer 46:9Ezek 29:10Ezek 30:4Ezek 30:5Ezek 30:9Ezek 38:5Nahum 3:9Zeph 3:10

Why this place is in the atlas

Cush is a biblical place imported into Sacred Atlas from OpenBible.info with 19 Scripture references attached for review.

Claim ledger

foreignKeys[0] ancientId: ac5a1ec, urlSlug: cush-1, friendlyId: Cush 1 OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - High
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 16.935139, longitude: 33.75075, precision: region OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - High
scriptureReferences 2 Kgs 19:9, Ps 68:31, Ps 87:4, Isa 11:11 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High