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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:8-9
This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
The sons of Japheth:
Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.
The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
The sons of Javan:
Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites. (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)
Genesis 10:1-5
This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
In yesterday’s message, we saw where the opening verses of Genesis, chapter 11 actually contain an event that happened before what we read in chapter 10, the confusion of language caused by God and then the subsequent scattering of the people in Babel (11:8-9).
Today, we go back to chapter 10 where we find where the offspring of Noah’s sons – Japheth, Ham, and Shem – ending up geographically after the Babel dispersing. For the next three days, we’ll cover each son’s lineage, beginning today with Japheth. Look again at our passage here:
This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
The sons of Japheth:
Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.
The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
The sons of Javan:
Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites. (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.) Genesis 10:1-5
Before we get into this, we need to remember what happened at the end of chapter 9 before Noah passed away.
You’ll remember that after making wine off the fresh grapes he grew from the earth after the flood, Noah became drunk and ended up lying naked in his tent. We discussed how nakedness was considered shameful going all the way back to Eden’s garden after the fall and so there was Noah, passed out and unable to cover himself.
The scriptures told us that Ham was the first to see his father exposed but instead of taking action, he went to tell his other two brothers. Hearing what had transpired, Japheth and Shem took a garment and laid it over their shoulders before backing into their father’s tent so they weren’t laying eyes on him and covering up his nakedness.
When Noah came around and learned what had happened, you’ll remember that he wished blessings on Japheth and Shem but cursed Ham, swearing consequences would come upon his son Canaan, who we know would be the progenitor of the Canaanite nation.
Okay, with that recap, we enter into chapter 10 and look first at one of the two blessed sons, Japheth. We read where he had seven sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras with two of them, Gomer and Javan, going on to have sons of their own. Of interest, each of the sons mentioned born from Japheth - Gomer and Javan - are referred to as nations and this chapter in Genesis is under the overall title, “The Table of Nations”.
Our scripture passage today also tells us something else about this particular clan. For we read where they were “maritime peoples” (think seagoing) who “spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations”, each having “its own language”. These descendants of Japheth would go out into a large part of Europe and Asia which fulfilled Noah’s wish that God would “extend Japheth’s territory” (9:27). Later populations who will be born out of the line of Japheth and the Japhethites would include the Macedonians, Greeks, Romans, and Persians, most of which were powerful empires in biblical times.
Tomorrow, we’ll look at the descendants of Ham.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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