. IX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaA2eHfx5cI
The flood stopped and over time God pulled the waters back, Noah kept sending birds out to check the land. Noah's control of the animals seems to have been while they were on the Ark. They didn't kill each other or act up. The Adam power over the animals was granted the patriarch. The Ark was like Eden in that,
(Please continue prayer for Louisiana as it exits the national news and the people there continue to need prayer and aid. W)
Ge 8:20 And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.
21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
(BBE)
No more global flood. That God said he would not flood again in that way certainly seems to confirm a global, not a local flood. Noah offers sacrifices from all the clean animals. God has established the idea of a perfect choice of animals. This may well have been passed down until the Law and certainly foreshadows it.
The smell comes to God. Which version of God has a nose? Yes, this also indicates that Jesus was there, too. He walked with them, told them about sacrifices and now lets the Spirit have a sensual experience from the burnt offerings. Christ, the Final Flesh, lurked behind every scene. Guiding us. Telling us what God wanted. Touching us so God would know the feel of the Creation his Son crafted. The scent of it. Our bizarre actuality. The one with seasons, winters, boiling summers. Extremes we try to battle with fire and fans, seeking shade and breeze. The warmth of human touch in winter, the feel of a cool stream or pool or lake in the heat. He promised the seasons would go on; farming would go on; life as Noah understood it would go on. It also testifies to the idea of the global canopy as God seems to be assuring Noah that the change he sees in the sky won't effect his climate.
Ge 9:1 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
2 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.
3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
(The first dietary rules. As we have "grown up" in analyzing life we've found that there were health reasons for all the "unclean" warnings God gave. Today we're supposed to thoroughly cook food to prevent diseases which apparently get carried in the blood. This would be a staple of Jewish ritual, food cooked til the blood was gone. Kosher meat packers like Eckrich keep a Rabbi on staff to be sure the food and the slaughter of animals is handled properly. W.)
5 And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.
6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
(We can have an argument about capital punishment. Put five people together and it can usually create one. We merely see here that God says man will take the life of those who take a life. He was certainly right about that. His image is sacred, in a murderer or a child. And He will have His image held sacred or have reprisal. But He would not have the image worshipped any more than the images the people in His image carved and still carve. Animals are for food. Humans are not. W.)
7 And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
8 And God said to Noah and to his sons,
9 Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,
10 And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.
11 And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.
12 And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:
13 I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.
14 And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,
15 And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.
16 And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.
17 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.
What is it with this God guy? He knows, He knows Ham is trouble. But God blesses him just like the rest.
Why?
Populating the Earth. Not all of Ham's kin would carry the giant gene. Nor would they be black as a result of the curse:
Are black people the result of a curse on Ham? See this page in: Dutch Discussions found in our other articles, such as "How did different skin colors come about?" show clearly that the blackness of, for example, black Africans, is merely one particular combination of inherited factors. This means that these factors themselves, though not in that combination, were originally present in Adam and Eve. The belief that the skin color of black people is a result of a curse on Ham and his descendants is nowhere taught in the Bible. Furthermore, it was not Ham who was cursed, but his son, Canaan (Genesis 9:18, 25, 10:6). Furthermore, Canaan's descendants were probably mid-brown skinned (Genesis 10:15-19), not black. False teaching about Ham has been used to justify slavery and other non-biblical racist practices. It is traditionally believed that the African nations are largely Hamitic, because the Cushites (Cush was a son of Ham: Genesis 10:6) are thought to have lived where Ethiopia is today. Genesis suggests that the dispersion was probably along family lines, and it may be that Ham's descendants were on average darker than, say, Japheth's. However, it could just as easily have been the other way around. Rahab, mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1, was a Canaanite. A descendant of Ham, she must have married an Israelite. Since this was a union approved by God, it shows that the particular “race” she came from was not important. It mattered only that she trusted in the true God of Israel. Ruth, a Moabitess, also features in the genealogy of Christ. She expressed faith in the true God before her marriage to Boaz (Ruth 1:16). The only marriages God warns against are God's people marrying unbelievers.1
Read more at: http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/race-blacks.html
Interestingly, one of the first sources listed in Google spouts the idea of black skin as a curse. This is the way the world works, this is the way the world works/Ending with whispered hate.
And, if you follow politics, the hate turns into a shout with the least provocation.
Yes, one of his line would be an ancestor of Christ. Now, about that curse thing.
18 And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.
20 In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
21 And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.
24 And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,
25 Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
(And Canaan was only one of Ham's children. W.)
26 And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.
28 And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;
29 all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.
(BBE)
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown:
Genesis 9:24
This incident could scarcely have happened till twenty years after the flood; for Canaan, whose conduct was more offensive than that even of his father, was not born till after that event. It is probable that there is a long interval included between these verses and that this prophecy, like that of Jacob on his sons, was not uttered till near the close of Noah's life when the prophetic spirit came upon him; this presumption is strengthened by the mention of his death immediately after.
John Wesley:
V. 25. A servant of servants-That is, the meanest and most despicable servant shall he be, even to his brethren. Those who by birth were his equals, should by conquest be his lords. This certainly points at the victories obtained by Israel over the Canaanites, by which they were all either put to the sword, or put under tribute. Jos 9:23; Jg 1:28,30,33,35, which happened not 'till about eight hundred years after this. God often visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, especially when the children inherit the fathers wicked dispositions, and imitate the father's wicked practices.
Some more liberal commentators suggest Ham did something more than just view his father, as if they can't understand the depth of Noah's wrath over Ham's seemingly juvenile behavior.
Let's put it in perspective. The whole world, the whole world outside the family was engaged in blatant sexual misbehavior. Noah remained upright and true. Late in his life he has a failing and would just as soon not have it be known since it mirrors that evil world. Drunkenness, nudity, All of it reflects the fallen world God delivered them from. Ham acting as he did, treating his father's failing as a joke and mocking him for acting like the people they had let drown, was enough to reveal his heart wasn't in the right place. Would never be.
And the other sons rejected him, went their way away from Ham. As God knew they would. I wonder of His plan envelopes us or He just lets us go our merry way throwing grenades into our own lives, victims of our own whims, not His or even Satan's. Whatever way it is, God always knows it's coming and it all fits the plan Jesus laid out at Creation.
Ge 10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.
5 From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.
6 And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8 And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.
9 He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
10 And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,
12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town.
13 And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim;
14 And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines.
15 And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
16 And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,
17 And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,
18 And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;
19 Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.
(So the giant gene went throughout the Middle East. Spread far and wide.)
20 All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.
21 And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.
22 These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
23 And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
24 And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.
25 And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.
26 And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
27 And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
28 And Obal and Abimael and Sheba
29 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
30 And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east.
31 These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.
(BBE)
Matt Henry covers the breadth:
Genesis 10:1 Ge 10:1
INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS CHAPTER 10
This chapter shows more particularly what was said in general (Ge 9:19), concerning the three sons of Noah, that "of them was the whole earth overspread;" and the fruit of that blessing (Ge 9:1,7), "replenish the earth." It is the only certain account extant of the origin of nations; and yet perhaps there is no nation but that of the Jews that can be confident from which of these seventy fountains (for so many there are here) it derives its streams. Through the want of early records, the mixtures of people, the revolutions of nations, and distance of time, the knowledge of the lineal descent of the present inhabitants of the earth is lost; nor were any genealogies preserved but those of the Jews, for the sake of the Messiah, only in this chapter we have a brief account,
I. Of the posterity of Japheth, Ge 10:2-5.
II. The posterity of Ham (Ge 10:6-20), and in this particular notice is taken of Nimrod, Ge 10:8-10.
III. The posterity of Shem, Ge 10:21-32.
Ver. 1.
Moses begins with Japheth's family, either because he was the eldest, or because his family lay remotest from Israel and had least concern with them at the time when Moses wrote, and therefore he mentions that race very briefly, hastening to give an account of the posterity of Ham, who were Israel's enemies and of Shem, who were Israel's ancestors; for it is the church that the scripture is designed to be the history of, and of the nations of the world only as they were some way or other related to Israel and interested in the affairs of Israel. Observe,
1. Notice is taken that the sons of Noah had sons born to them after the flood, to repair and rebuild the world of mankind which the flood had ruined. He that had killed now makes alive.
2. The posterity of Japheth were allotted to the isles of the Gentiles (Ge 10:5), which were solemnly, by lot, after a survey, divided among them, and probably this island of ours among the rest; all places beyond the sea from Judea are called isles (Jer 25:22), and this directs us to understand that promise (Isa 42:4), the isles shall wait for his law, of the conversion of the Gentiles to the faith of Christ.
So let's follow Matt's suggestion and take special note of Nimrod next time.
Concerning India's Christian/Hindu conflicts:
http://www.cobrapost.com/news/cobrapost-expose-operation-shuddhikaran-cover-story/4635
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaA2eHfx5cI
The flood stopped and over time God pulled the waters back, Noah kept sending birds out to check the land. Noah's control of the animals seems to have been while they were on the Ark. They didn't kill each other or act up. The Adam power over the animals was granted the patriarch. The Ark was like Eden in that,
(Please continue prayer for Louisiana as it exits the national news and the people there continue to need prayer and aid. W)
Ge 8:20 And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.
21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
(BBE)
No more global flood. That God said he would not flood again in that way certainly seems to confirm a global, not a local flood. Noah offers sacrifices from all the clean animals. God has established the idea of a perfect choice of animals. This may well have been passed down until the Law and certainly foreshadows it.
The smell comes to God. Which version of God has a nose? Yes, this also indicates that Jesus was there, too. He walked with them, told them about sacrifices and now lets the Spirit have a sensual experience from the burnt offerings. Christ, the Final Flesh, lurked behind every scene. Guiding us. Telling us what God wanted. Touching us so God would know the feel of the Creation his Son crafted. The scent of it. Our bizarre actuality. The one with seasons, winters, boiling summers. Extremes we try to battle with fire and fans, seeking shade and breeze. The warmth of human touch in winter, the feel of a cool stream or pool or lake in the heat. He promised the seasons would go on; farming would go on; life as Noah understood it would go on. It also testifies to the idea of the global canopy as God seems to be assuring Noah that the change he sees in the sky won't effect his climate.
Ge 9:1 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
2 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.
3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
(The first dietary rules. As we have "grown up" in analyzing life we've found that there were health reasons for all the "unclean" warnings God gave. Today we're supposed to thoroughly cook food to prevent diseases which apparently get carried in the blood. This would be a staple of Jewish ritual, food cooked til the blood was gone. Kosher meat packers like Eckrich keep a Rabbi on staff to be sure the food and the slaughter of animals is handled properly. W.)
5 And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.
6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
(We can have an argument about capital punishment. Put five people together and it can usually create one. We merely see here that God says man will take the life of those who take a life. He was certainly right about that. His image is sacred, in a murderer or a child. And He will have His image held sacred or have reprisal. But He would not have the image worshipped any more than the images the people in His image carved and still carve. Animals are for food. Humans are not. W.)
7 And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
8 And God said to Noah and to his sons,
9 Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,
10 And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.
11 And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.
12 And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:
13 I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.
14 And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,
15 And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.
16 And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.
17 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.
What is it with this God guy? He knows, He knows Ham is trouble. But God blesses him just like the rest.
Why?
Populating the Earth. Not all of Ham's kin would carry the giant gene. Nor would they be black as a result of the curse:
Are black people the result of a curse on Ham? See this page in: Dutch Discussions found in our other articles, such as "How did different skin colors come about?" show clearly that the blackness of, for example, black Africans, is merely one particular combination of inherited factors. This means that these factors themselves, though not in that combination, were originally present in Adam and Eve. The belief that the skin color of black people is a result of a curse on Ham and his descendants is nowhere taught in the Bible. Furthermore, it was not Ham who was cursed, but his son, Canaan (Genesis 9:18, 25, 10:6). Furthermore, Canaan's descendants were probably mid-brown skinned (Genesis 10:15-19), not black. False teaching about Ham has been used to justify slavery and other non-biblical racist practices. It is traditionally believed that the African nations are largely Hamitic, because the Cushites (Cush was a son of Ham: Genesis 10:6) are thought to have lived where Ethiopia is today. Genesis suggests that the dispersion was probably along family lines, and it may be that Ham's descendants were on average darker than, say, Japheth's. However, it could just as easily have been the other way around. Rahab, mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1, was a Canaanite. A descendant of Ham, she must have married an Israelite. Since this was a union approved by God, it shows that the particular “race” she came from was not important. It mattered only that she trusted in the true God of Israel. Ruth, a Moabitess, also features in the genealogy of Christ. She expressed faith in the true God before her marriage to Boaz (Ruth 1:16). The only marriages God warns against are God's people marrying unbelievers.1
Read more at: http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/race-blacks.html
Interestingly, one of the first sources listed in Google spouts the idea of black skin as a curse. This is the way the world works, this is the way the world works/Ending with whispered hate.
And, if you follow politics, the hate turns into a shout with the least provocation.
Yes, one of his line would be an ancestor of Christ. Now, about that curse thing.
18 And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.
20 In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
21 And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.
24 And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,
25 Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
(And Canaan was only one of Ham's children. W.)
26 And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.
28 And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;
29 all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.
(BBE)
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown:
Genesis 9:24
This incident could scarcely have happened till twenty years after the flood; for Canaan, whose conduct was more offensive than that even of his father, was not born till after that event. It is probable that there is a long interval included between these verses and that this prophecy, like that of Jacob on his sons, was not uttered till near the close of Noah's life when the prophetic spirit came upon him; this presumption is strengthened by the mention of his death immediately after.
John Wesley:
V. 25. A servant of servants-That is, the meanest and most despicable servant shall he be, even to his brethren. Those who by birth were his equals, should by conquest be his lords. This certainly points at the victories obtained by Israel over the Canaanites, by which they were all either put to the sword, or put under tribute. Jos 9:23; Jg 1:28,30,33,35, which happened not 'till about eight hundred years after this. God often visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, especially when the children inherit the fathers wicked dispositions, and imitate the father's wicked practices.
Some more liberal commentators suggest Ham did something more than just view his father, as if they can't understand the depth of Noah's wrath over Ham's seemingly juvenile behavior.
Let's put it in perspective. The whole world, the whole world outside the family was engaged in blatant sexual misbehavior. Noah remained upright and true. Late in his life he has a failing and would just as soon not have it be known since it mirrors that evil world. Drunkenness, nudity, All of it reflects the fallen world God delivered them from. Ham acting as he did, treating his father's failing as a joke and mocking him for acting like the people they had let drown, was enough to reveal his heart wasn't in the right place. Would never be.
And the other sons rejected him, went their way away from Ham. As God knew they would. I wonder of His plan envelopes us or He just lets us go our merry way throwing grenades into our own lives, victims of our own whims, not His or even Satan's. Whatever way it is, God always knows it's coming and it all fits the plan Jesus laid out at Creation.
Ge 10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.
5 From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.
6 And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8 And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.
9 He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
10 And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,
12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town.
13 And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim;
14 And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines.
15 And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
16 And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,
17 And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,
18 And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;
19 Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.
(So the giant gene went throughout the Middle East. Spread far and wide.)
20 All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.
21 And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.
22 These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
23 And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
24 And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.
25 And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.
26 And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
27 And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
28 And Obal and Abimael and Sheba
29 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
30 And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east.
31 These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.
(BBE)
Matt Henry covers the breadth:
Genesis 10:1 Ge 10:1
INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS CHAPTER 10
This chapter shows more particularly what was said in general (Ge 9:19), concerning the three sons of Noah, that "of them was the whole earth overspread;" and the fruit of that blessing (Ge 9:1,7), "replenish the earth." It is the only certain account extant of the origin of nations; and yet perhaps there is no nation but that of the Jews that can be confident from which of these seventy fountains (for so many there are here) it derives its streams. Through the want of early records, the mixtures of people, the revolutions of nations, and distance of time, the knowledge of the lineal descent of the present inhabitants of the earth is lost; nor were any genealogies preserved but those of the Jews, for the sake of the Messiah, only in this chapter we have a brief account,
I. Of the posterity of Japheth, Ge 10:2-5.
II. The posterity of Ham (Ge 10:6-20), and in this particular notice is taken of Nimrod, Ge 10:8-10.
III. The posterity of Shem, Ge 10:21-32.
Ver. 1.
Moses begins with Japheth's family, either because he was the eldest, or because his family lay remotest from Israel and had least concern with them at the time when Moses wrote, and therefore he mentions that race very briefly, hastening to give an account of the posterity of Ham, who were Israel's enemies and of Shem, who were Israel's ancestors; for it is the church that the scripture is designed to be the history of, and of the nations of the world only as they were some way or other related to Israel and interested in the affairs of Israel. Observe,
1. Notice is taken that the sons of Noah had sons born to them after the flood, to repair and rebuild the world of mankind which the flood had ruined. He that had killed now makes alive.
2. The posterity of Japheth were allotted to the isles of the Gentiles (Ge 10:5), which were solemnly, by lot, after a survey, divided among them, and probably this island of ours among the rest; all places beyond the sea from Judea are called isles (Jer 25:22), and this directs us to understand that promise (Isa 42:4), the isles shall wait for his law, of the conversion of the Gentiles to the faith of Christ.
So let's follow Matt's suggestion and take special note of Nimrod next time.
Concerning India's Christian/Hindu conflicts:
http://www.cobrapost.com/news/cobrapost-expose-operation-shuddhikaran-cover-story/4635
