Genesis 9:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Genesis 9:26 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 144:15
Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
Genesis 12:1-3
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: …
Genesis 27:37
And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
Luke 3:23-36
And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being(as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, …

Topics

Canaanites Judgments Perizzites

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 24-27)

II. The spirit of prophecy comes upon him, and, like dying Jacob, he tells his sons what shall befal them, Gen. 49:1. 1. He pronounces a curse on Canaan the son of Ham (Gen. 9:25), in whom Ham is himself cursed, either because this son of his was now more guilty than the rest, or because the posterity of this son was afterwards to be rooted out of their land, to make room for Israel. And Moses her…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. Blessed be the Lord God of Shem--rather, “Blessed of Jehovah, my God, be Shem,”--an intimation that the descendants of Shem should be peculiarly honored in the service of the true God, His Church being for ages established among them (the Jews), and of them, concerning the flesh, Christ came. They got possession of Canaan, the people of that land being made their “servants” either by conquest,…