6And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
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The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. …
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-14)That which is observable and improvable in these verses is the account here given of Nimrod, Gen. 10:8-10. He is here represented as a great man in his day: He began to be a mighty one in the earth , that is, whereas those that went before him were content to stand upon the same level with their neighbours, and though every man bore rule in his own house yet no man pretended any further, Nimrod’s…
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