Verse 40

They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.

Referenced Verses

• Judg 18:7-9 : 7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man. 8 They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, What [say] you? 9 They said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are you still? don't be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land. 10 When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.
• Ps 78:51 : 51 And struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
• Ps 105:23 : 23 Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
• Gen 9:22-29 : 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness. 24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. 25 He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers." 26 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant. 27 God enlarge Japheth, Let him dwell in the tents of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant." 28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
• Gen 10:6 : 6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.