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1 Chronicles 4:40
1 Chronicles 4:40 is verse 40 of 1 Chronicles chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.
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.
World English Bible
They found rich, good pasture, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful, for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.
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1 Chronicles 4:38–42 · Berean Standard Bible
38 These men listed by name were the leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly,
39 and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks.
40 There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.
41 These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites and Meunites there in their dwellings, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.
42 And five hundred of these Simeonites led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to Mount Seir
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Judges 18:7So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, tranquil and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. And they were far away from the Sidonians and had no alliance with anyone.
Judges 18:8When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”
Judges 18:9They answered, “Come on, let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Why would you fail to act? Do not hesitate to go there and take possession of the land!
Judges 18:10When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
Genesis 9:22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Genesis 9:24When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
Genesis 9:25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
Genesis 9:26He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
Genesis 9:27May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
Genesis 9:28After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.
Genesis 9:29So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
Genesis 10:6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Psalms 78:51He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
Psalms 105:23Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.