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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
The sons of Ham:
Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
The sons of Cush:
Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.
The sons of Raamah:
Sheba and Dedan.
Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar. From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.
Later the Canaanite clans scattered and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.
These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
Genesis 10:6-20
This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
The words of his father Noah prophesied about the future of Ham’s descendents, especially those of his son Canaan:
When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said:
“Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.”
“May Canaan be the slave of Shem.”
“...and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.” Genesis 9:25-27
You’ll recall that all of this originated when Ham, seeing his father lying uncovered in his tent after passing out from drunkenness, failed to cover his father and instead went to tell his two brothers, Shem and Japheth, who then took care of draping a garment over the naked Noah. Once awake from his alcohol-induced sleep, Noah learned of what happened and wished a curse on Ham’s son and those who would be his descendents.
So how would this look after God caused the great scattering at Babel?
We find out as we look at today’s passage and Ham’s family tree. Look again at those words here from Genesis, chapter 10:
The sons of Ham:
Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
The sons of Cush:
Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.
The sons of Raamah:
Sheba and Dedan.
Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar. From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.
Later the Canaanite clans scattered and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.
These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations. Vv.6-20
Like we saw in yesterday’s message, the genealogy account begins sons and then the offspring of those sons. In Ham’s case, he had four sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. Of those four, we see the most attention given to Cush and Canaan, the latter of which being the progenitor of the Canaanites and their offshoot clans, the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. All inhabited the land of Canaan and most are listed in this passage found in the Book of Deuteronomy as the Israelites were given direction on how to take over the land God had promised them:
When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.
This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be His people, His treasured possession (7:1-6)
It’s obvious here that those from the line of Ham will choose to reject the Lord and serve other gods. We further read that eventually “the Canaanite clans” would scatter “to where “the borders of Canaan” would reach toward Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities known best for being utterly destroyed by God because of their wicked sinfulness.
Turning to Cush, look at where his bloodline led.
First, we learn where he “the father of Nimrod”, a “mighty warrior on the earth” and a “mighty hunter before the Lord”. The scriptures tell us one of the “first centers of his kingdom” was none other than Babylon and he also “went to Assyria where he built Nineveh”. In Micah, we find Assyria referred to as “the land of Nimrod” (5:6).
And so Cush, one of the four sons of Noah’s son, Ham, ended up associated with the two major empires that attacked and conquered the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, the Assyrians and Babylonians respectively, through his son Nimrod.
In today’s message, we continue to see reaching impact of the geographical dispersement of people after God’s work in Babel and how this would go onto connect to the history of the Israelites found within our Old Testament studies.
Tomorrow, we’ll finish this series by looking at Noah’s third son, Shem, and his lineage.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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