Pentecost sanctified the legitimacy of separate nationality rather than saying this is something we should outgrow. In fact, even in the new earth to come, after the Second Coming of Christ, we are told that the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of the heavenly Jerusal...
Dedan-the Hebrew name for the Mineans. Dedan is the Nubian god of incense, Dedun, who became the Egyptian god Nefertem, the god of perfume in the Memphis triad. Dedan is a son of Cush according to Gen 10:7. The Cushites are descendants of Ham or Cham in Hebrew which is the Hebrew...
Uzal and Huzal), the sixth named of the thirteen sons of Joktan among the descendants of Shem (Ge 10:27; 1Ch 1:21). B.C. post 2400. SEE JOKTAN. Abraham Zakuth, a learned Jewish writer, states that Sanaa, the metropolis of Yemen, is by the Jews called Uzal (Bochart, Opera, 1...
The examples of Rahab and Ruth help us understand how God views the issue of marriage between those who are from different people groups but trust in the true God. Rahab was a Canaanite. These Canaanites had an ungodly culture, and were descendants of Canaan, the son of Ham. Remember, ...
One of Shem's descendants has three sons. Only one of these is selected as the peculiar treasurer of the divine favor. But not for himself alone was Abraham chosen. As in Shem's instance, so here again Abraham was to be the centre of blessing to even a larger scope. More than once ...
The brown people of southern India and Ceylon are also descendants of Cush. Historians call them Dravidians; the ancients called them Sibae (Smith's Classical Dictionary). Their Bible name was Seba (Gen. 10:7). Josephus recognized an eastern and a western Cush--one in Asia, the other in...
In the course of his study he looks at such well-known biblical stories such as the seven days of creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the conflict between Cain and Able, Noah and the flood, and the rise of nations from Noah’s descendants. All, he says, have very strong...
~1975 BC Abraham visits his father and mother, and teaches the people of the village how to know the Lord. The Lord then reminds Abraham to go to Canaan and that He will make his name great and bless him with great descendants. – Jasher 13:20-23 Abraham heads to Canaan but learns ...
Tymp., p. 223.) Moses is enumerating the descendants of Ham, and it is not likely that he would interrupt the' details to give an account of Asshur, a son of Shem, whose posterity are not introduced till ver. 21. Besides, in the circumstance of Asshur leaving one country to settle ...
Aram was a son of Shem, and him descendants colonized the country of Aram (Ge 10:21-31). On the other hand, Aram cannot, at least ab, solutely, be termed a "highland region." It comprised the vast plains along the banks of the Euphrates, and westward to the Orontes and Anti- ...