1 Chronicles 4:40

And they found fat pastures, and very good, and a country spacious, and quiet, and fruitful, in which some of the race of Cham had dwelt before.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

In Context

39And they went forth to enter into Gador as far as to the east side of the valley, to seek pastures for their flocks.

41And these whose names are written above, came in the days of Ezechias king of Juda: and they beat down their tents, and slew the inhabitants that were found there, and utterly destroyed them unto this day: and they dwelt in their place, because they found there fat pastures.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:6And the sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.

Psalms 78:51And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 4:25-43

Genealogies. ( b. c. 715.) 24 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul: 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. 26 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son. 27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah. 28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, 29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, 30 And at Bethuel, and… Read the whole commentary →

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