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Gen. 9:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he saidt, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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Deut. 27:16• ¹⁶Cursed be he that slighteth his father or his mother! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:16)

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Josh. 9:23,27• ²³And now ye are cursed, and ye shall never cease to be bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the house of my God.
²⁷And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the assembly, and for the altar of Jehovah, to this day, in the place which he should choose. (Josh. 9:23,27)

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Judg. 1:28,30• ²⁸And it came to pass when Israel became strong, that they made the Canaanites tributary; but they did not utterly dispossess them.
³⁰Zebulun did not dispossess the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries. (Judg. 1:28,30)

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2 Chron. 8:7‑8• ⁷[As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which [were] not of Israel,
⁸[but] of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day. (2 Chron. 8:7‑8)

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Gen. 9:22• ²²And Ham, father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. (Gen. 9:22)

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Gen. 3:14• ¹⁴And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed [be] thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all [the] days of thy life. (Gen. 3:14)

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Gen. 4:11• ¹¹And now cursed [be] thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. (Gen. 4:11)

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Gen. 49:7• ⁷Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce, and their rage, for [it was] cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. (Gen. 49:7)

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Deut. 27:16• ¹⁶Cursed be he that slighteth his father or his mother! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:16)

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Deut. 28:18• ¹⁸Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep. (Deut. 28:18)

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Matt. 25:41• ⁴¹Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, accursed, into the everlasting fire that is prepared for the devil and his angels. (Matt. 25:41)

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John 8:34• ³⁴Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practiceth sin is a bondman of sin. (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. 9:23,27• ²³And now ye are cursed, and ye shall never cease to be bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the house of my God.
²⁷And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the assembly, and for the altar of Jehovah, to this day, in the place which he should choose. (Josh. 9:23,27)

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Judg. 1:28‑30• ²⁸And it came to pass when Israel became strong, that they made the Canaanites tributary; but they did not utterly dispossess them.
²⁹And Ephraim did not dispossess the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt among them in Gezer.
³⁰Zebulun did not dispossess the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries. (Judg. 1:28‑30)

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1 Kings 9:20‑21• ²⁰All the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,
²¹their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, upon them did Solomon impose a tribute of bondservice until this day. (1 Kings 9:20‑21)

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2 Chron. 8:7‑8• ⁷[As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which [were] not of Israel,
⁸[but] of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day. (2 Chron. 8:7‑8)

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John 8:34• ³⁴Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practiceth sin is a bondman of sin. (John 8:34)

• The sin began with utter disrespect to a father. Not to speak of the destroyed cities of the plain, they had in Joshua’s day sunk into the most shameless of sinners that ever disgraced God and defiled the earth. The believer can readily understand how Noah was divinely led to pronounce a just malediction on Canaan. (“Genesis 9” by W. Kelly)

• {v.25-27} As Peter, honored among the twelve, was reinstated after his still more grievous and inexcusable sin, so was Noah given to present the broad outlines of what should befall his sons throughout the ages, yet in an aspect precisely suiting that government of man on earth, which he was the first to exercise, and which God would sustain notwithstanding the fault of its representative. (“Genesis 9:25-29” by W. Kelly)

• {v.25-27} There was no waiting in their case as in Jacob's for the Spirit of prophecy on his dying bed. It would seem to have ere long followed that event in his circle which led to the striking prediction here given. It is the first prophecy properly so called which man was given to utter recorded in Genesis. The word given in Gen. 3:15 is of a yet higher nature. It was worthy of Jehovah Elohim to make known, in judging the old Serpent, His gracious purpose in the woman's Seed. Nor is the poetic strain of Lemech to his wives more than typical of the future, though most interesting in that way. Here it is strictly a prophetic prayer. (“Genesis 9:25-29” by W. Kelly)

• There was of course a true link which the Holy Spirit saw between Ham's sin, and his descendants' corruption; but it was in no way the mere immediate fortune-telling to which this deplorable unbelief would pervert the prophets. Still less can it be said of Canaan reduced to the lowest bondage, as when Israel took possession of the land of promise. Yet scripture is plain that both the curse and the blessing are not complete till Israel re-enter the land under Messiah and the new covenant, to be rooted there and blessed as long as the earth endures. “And in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.” (“Genesis 9:25-29” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren.

W. Kelly Translation

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And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; and he said, Bondman of bondman be he to his brethren.