Genesis 9:22-27
Ham Gen 9:25, Gen 10:6, Gen 10:15-19; 1Chr 1:8, 1Chr 1:13-16 told 2Sam 1:19-20; Ps 35:20-21, Ps 40:15, Ps 70:3; Prov 25:9, Prov 30:17; Obad 1:12-13; Matt 18:15; 1Cor 13:6; Gal 6:1 Exod 20:12; Lev 19:32; Rom 13:7; Gal 6:1; 1Tim 5:1, 1Tim 5:17, 1Tim 5:19; 1Pet 2:17, 1Pet 4:8 Cursed Gen 9:22, Gen 3:14, Gen 4:11, Gen 49:7; Deut 27:16, Deut 28:18; Matt 25:41; John 8:34 a servant The devoted nations, which God destroyed before Israel, were descended from Canaan, and so were the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, who were at length subjugated with dreadful destruction by the Greeks and Romans. The Africans, who have been bought and sold like beasts, were also his posterity. Josh 9:23, Josh 9:27; Judg 1:28-30; 1Kgs 9:20-21; 2Chr 8:7-8; John 8:34 Blessed Deut 33:26; Ps 144:15; Rom 9:5 the Lord Gen 10:10-26, Gen 12:1-3; Luke 3:23-36 Shem Heb 11:16 his servant or, servant to them, Gen 27:37, Gen 27:40 enlarge or, persuade Japheth Japheth denotes enlargement, and how wonderfully have his boundaries been enlarged; for not only Europe, but Asia Minor, part of Armenia, Iberia, the whole of the vast regions of Asia north of Taurus, and probably America, fell to the share of his posterity. he shall dwell These words may mean either that God or that Japheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem. In either sense the prophecy has been literally fulfilled. dwell Isa 11:10; Hos 2:14; Mal 1:11; Acts 17:14; Rom 11:12, Rom 15:12; Eph 2:13-14, Eph 2:19, Eph 3:6, Eph 3:13; Heb 11:9-10
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