1 Chronicles 4:40

They found abundant and good pasture. The land was broad, quiet, and peaceable. The Hamites had formerly lived there.

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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

39They went near Gedor, on the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

41These just listed by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and attacked the Hamite settlements and the Meunites, who were there also. They destroyed them completely and lived there because they found pasture for their flocks.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:6The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Psalms 78:51He killed all the firstborn in Egypt, 1 the firstborn of their strength in the tents of Ham. 1

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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