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Genesis 50:11

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

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Job 30:30 Song of Solomon 1:5 Jeremiah 14:2 Lamentations 4:8 Hosea 7:8 Amos 9:7 Revelation 1:13-16

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Job 30:30

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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Genesis 50:11 Song of Solomon 1:5 Jeremiah 14:2 Lamentations 4:8 Hosea 7:8 Amos 9:7 Revelation 1:13-16

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Song of Solomon 1:5

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Breakdown

In this verse, King Solomon is saying that he is a black, beautiful man. In the ancient world, you had many nomadic groups of people. Saying tents is a way to group those people, i.e. tents of Kedar means the people of Kedar. Kedar Dark-skinned Ishmaelites

Note There is a slight mistranslation on this verse: the word but should really be 'and' as the Hebrew character in its place is a 'wa'

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Genesis 50:11 Job 30:30 Jeremiah 14:2 Lamentations 4:8 Hosea 7:8 Amos 9:7 Revelation 1:13-16

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Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

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gates Leadership. black קדר (qadar) - dark skinned.

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Genesis 50:11 Job 30:30 Song of Solomon 1:5 Lamentations 4:8 Hosea 7:8 Amos 9:7 Revelation 1:13-16

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Lamentations 4:8

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

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Genesis 50:11 Job 30:30 Song of Solomon 1:5 Jeremiah 14:2 Hosea 7:8 Amos 9:7 Revelation 1:13-16

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Hosea 7:8

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

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cake not turned Various shades of brown.

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Genesis 50:11 Job 30:30 Song of Solomon 1:5 Jeremiah 14:2 Lamentations 4:8 Amos 9:7 Revelation 1:13-16

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Amos 9:7

Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

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Some Ethiopians look like Israelites.

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Genesis 50:11 Job 30:30 Song of Solomon 1:5 Jeremiah 14:2 Lamentations 4:8 Hosea 7:8 Revelation 1:13-16

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Revelation 1:13-16

And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

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Genesis 50:11 Job 30:30 Song of Solomon 1:5 Jeremiah 14:2 Lamentations 4:8 Hosea 7:8 Amos 9:7

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Revelation 1:14

His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

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Revelation 1:15

And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

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Revelation 1:16

And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

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