Fear No Fear

(All scripture from the World English Bible, ebible.org, all rights reserved)

“The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.“
Genesis 2:13

Gihon (ghee-khone) means ‘a bursting forth’. This was a STRONG river. One that rushed and ROARED. The word also brings forth ‘streams’ as in tributaries and perhaps created something of a vast delta.

This river apparently flowed south, and like the previous one, detoured around the land where the garden was. According to the sage Radak, the river flowed ‘in a southerly direction flowing around the whole land of Kush from which it enters Sarnediv known as the great sea, (Mediterranean)’.

There are those who believe Cush lay around where modern Ethiopia is, and others the region which stretches between modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. I think there’s danger making assumptions pre-flood because the whole face of the Earth could have (and probably was) drastically altered at that time. What was before the flood does not necessarily hold true after it.