10:18-20 – “Later the Canaanite clans scattered and
the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon
toward Gerar as far as Gaza,
and then toward Sodom,
Gomorarah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. These are the sons of Ham by their clans and
languages, in their territories and nations.”
Ham’s descendants are going
to move into the land of Canaan, Arabia and Africa.
Sidon |
Hittites |
Jebusites |
Amorites |
Girgashites |
Hivites |
Arkites |
Sinites |
Arvadites |
Zemarites |
Hamathites |
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Ludites |
Anamites |
Lehabites |
Naphtuhites |
Pathrusites |
Casluhites |
Caphtorites |
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Seba |
Havilah |
Sabtah |
Raamah |
Sabteca |
(Nimrod) |
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From Casluhites:
Philistines
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Cush settles in Arabia (modern Saudia Arabia and Yemen)
Mizriam goes to Egypt and NE Africa
Canaan settles in the land of Canaan (modern Israel, Lebanon, Syria )
- Cush
- Africa’s Nubia located
south of Egypt
- It is “Ethiopia” in the Septuagint but not modern
Ethiopia
- Isaiah 37:9; Jeremiah 13:23;
Genesis 2:13
- Notice the sons of Cush are in
Arabia (Saudi Arabia)
and south of Egypt
- 10:8 – “Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew
to be a mighty warrior on the earth.”
- 10:9 – “He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; . . . “
- 10:9 – “That is why it is said, ‘Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the
Lord.’ ”
- 10:10 – “The first centers of his kingdom were:
i.
Babylon
ii.
Erech
iii.
Akkad
iv.
Calneh in Shjinar
- 10:11- “From that land he went to Assyria,
where he built:
i.
Nineveh
ii.
Rehoboth
Ir
iii.
Calah
iv.
Resen, between Nineveh and Calah, the great
city.
- Mizraim
- Mizraim is not a translation but a
transliteration of the Hebrew word for Egypt
- The “im”
makes it plural or dual speaking of the two Egypts:
Upper and Lower
- Notice the sons of Mizraim are near Egypt
- Put
- Put is translated as Libya (west of Egypt
on Mediterranean
Coast) in the
Septuagint
- Nahum 3:9 distinguishes Put
and Libya but Ham’s
sons are listed from South to North placing Put in Libya.
- Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 30:5;
38:4; 27:10
- No sons are listed
- Canaan
- Many details along with a long
list accompanies Canaan since they settled in
the land that was to be given to Israel.
- This is basically the land of Israel
today and includes modern Lebanon
and part of Syria
- Canaan was originally
controlled by Egypt
- The term Canaan
appears in Egyptian, Mesopotamian texts including cuneiform writing.
- Seba
- Son of Cush
- Seba is listed with Egypt and Cush
in Isaiah 43:3 and 45:14
- Seba is probably an African people
- Herodotus and Josephus both
call Seba the capital of Ethiopia
- Havilah
- Son of Cush
- Referred to in the Garden of
Eden
- Havilah here is related to Arabia
- Shem also has a Havilah in his line which may have blended with this Havilah
- Havilah is related to Ishmaiel in Gen. 25:18 and 1 Sam. 15:7
- Sabtah
- Son of Cush
- The ancient city of Shabwat (from Sabtah) is the capital of Hadramaut
in south Arabia.
- Raamah
- Son of Cush
- Raamah is named with Sheba in Ezekiel 27:22 as being a trader
with the city of Tyre
- Raamah is in southern Arabia which
is Yemen and south of
modern Saudi Arabia.
-
- Sabteca
- Son of Cush
- Southern
Arabia
- Sheba
- Son of Raamah,
Grandson of Cush
- Along with Dedan, Sheba is an Arabian tribe
known for commercial trade (1 Kings 10:1-13; Psalms 72:10; Ezekiel 27:15;
38:13)
- The Queen of Sheba visited
King Solomon in 1 Kings 10:1 and 2 Chronicles 9:1
- Sheba is in southern Arabia
- Dedan
- Son of Raamah,
Grandson of Cush
- Dedan is associated with Edom in Jeremiah 49:8 which would place
them in northern Arabia
- Ludites
- Son of Mizraim
- The Lydians
of western Asia Minor
- The prophets associate the Ludites with African people in Jeremiah 46:9 and
Ezekiel 30:5
- Anamites
- Son of Mizraim
- This could be in the Libyan
desert or west of Alexandria,
Egypt
- Lehabites
- Son of Mizraim
- A people associated with the Lybians
- Naphtuhites
- Son of Mizraim
- They are associated with Lehabites of Lybia and the Pathrusites of Upper (southern) Egypt
- These associations would place
Naphtuhites in Lower (northern) Egypt and
possibly in the Delta
- Pathrusites
- Son of Mizraim
- These are the people of Pathros which is in Upper (southern) Egypt
- The prophets connect them to Egypt in Isaiah
11:11; Jeremiah 44:1, 15; Ezekiel 29:14; 30:14.
- Casluhites
- Son of Mizraim
- Some migrated out of Egypt into Southern Canaan around 3,000 BC
and became known as the Philistines we meet in the book of Genesis around
Beersheba
in Abraham and Isaac’s day (Gen. 20:2; 26:1; Ex. 13:17; 23:31)
- Caphtorites
- Son of Mizraim
- Caphtor, or the home of the Caphtorites, is the island
of Caphtor
(later known as Crete) in the Mediterranean Sea
- The people of Caphtor (Crete) are associated with Egypt in ancient literature
including Amos 9:7 and Jeremiah 47:4
- These came from the sea and
assumed the name Philistines
- Amos 9:7 and Jeremiah 47:4
says these Philistines came from Caphtor (Crete)
- The Philistines of Genesis
were Canaanites with a king
- The Philistines from Caphtor (Crete) had
city-states like the Greeks which included five major Philistine cities
each with a king as is seen in Samuel, Saul and David’s day.
- The Philistines from Caphtor brought iron from the western world and
dominated the land
of Canaan. They did not allow a blacksmith in Israel.
- Philistines
- Descendants of Casluhites and Caphtorites
- Sidon
- Son of Canaan
- The earliest urban center of Phonecia.
-
- Hittites
- Son of Canaan
- Ezekiel 16:3 founded the city
of Jerusalem
along with the Amorites
- Lived in the area of Judah in Genesis including Hebron
- Gen. 23:3 – Abraham bought the
Cave of Machpelah
from Ephron the Hittite
- Jebusites
- Son of Canaan
- Occupied Salem
or Jebus or Jerusalem
- Amorites
- Son of Canaan
- Akkadian texts show Amorites in Syria and Lebanon
- Ezekiel 16:3, 45 says they
moved into Mesopotamia
- King Hammurabi
and the people o Mari were Amorites who moved into Babylon
- Girgashites
- Son of Canaan
- Deut. 7:1
- Hivites
- Son of Canaan
- Shechem of the city of Shechem
who raped Jacob’s daughter Dinah was a Hivite
- Hivites also lived in Lebanon (Judges 3:3), in Gibeon (Joshua 9:1, 7), Mt. Hermon (Joshua 11:3)
- Arkites
- Son of Canaan
- Coast of Lebanon
- Sinites
- Son of Canaan
-
- Arvadites
- Son of Canaan
-
- Zemarites
- Son of Canaan
-
- Hamathites
- Son of Canaan
- They settled in Hamath which is 130 miles north of Damascus
![Map of the Sons of Ham](../../images/bible_study/map_ham.jpg)
![The Cities of Nimrod](../../images/bible_study/ham_cities_of_nimrod.jpg)
![Sons of Ham and Canaan](../../images/bible_study/ham_canaan.jpg)
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