1 Chronicles 4:40

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.

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  • Judg 18:7-9 : 7 Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram. 8 So they came back to their brothers in Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, What news have you? 9 And they said, Up! and let us go against Laish; for we have seen the land, and it is very good: why are you doing nothing? Do not be slow to go in and take the land for your heritage. 10 When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.
  • Ps 78:51 : 51 He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;
  • Ps 105:23 : 23 Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham.
  • Gen 9:22-29 : 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed. 24 And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said, 25 Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers. 26 And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant. 27 May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant. 28 And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters; 29 all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.
  • Gen 10:6 : 6 And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

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    20All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.

  • Gen 10:6
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    6And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

  • Gen 34:20-21
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    20Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,

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  • Neh 9:25
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    25And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

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    4And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.

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    27He let his signs be seen among the people, and his wonders in the land of Ham.

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  • 2 Chr 14:15
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    15And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

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