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Ham

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: H

By: George A. Morrish

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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1. One of Noah’s three sons: he was father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan. Mizraim and Phut, in their descendants, were mainly connected with Egypt. Nothing personally is known of Ham except his disrespectful behavior when his father was intoxicated, and which drew down the curse of Noah on Canaan (Gen. 5:32³²And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Genesis 5:32); Gen. 6:10¹⁰And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Genesis 6:10); Gen. 9:18,22¹⁸And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. (Genesis 9:18)
²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. (Genesis 9:22); Gen. 10:1,6,20¹Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. (Genesis 10:1)
⁶And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. (Genesis 10:6)
²⁰These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. (Genesis 10:20); 1 Chron. 1:4,8⁴Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (1 Chronicles 1:4)
⁸The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. (1 Chronicles 1:8)).

2. The dwelling place of the above in Egypt was mostly designated “the land of Ham” (Psa. 78:51⁵¹And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: (Psalm 78:51); Psa. 105:23,27²³Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. (Psalm 105:23)
²⁷They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. (Psalm 105:27); Psa. 106:22²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. (Psalm 106:22)).

3. A place somewhere on the east of the Dead Sea, where the Zuzims dwelt who were smitten by Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:5⁵And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, (Genesis 14:5)).

4. The Simeonites in searching for pasture for their flocks in the South came to a place where they of Ham had dwelt of old (1 Chron. 4:40⁴⁰And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old. (1 Chronicles 4:40)). Some suppose these to have been a colony from Egypt; others judge them to have been Canaanitish nomads.

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