Noah’s Descendants His Three Sons. The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. Gen 9:18
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
I.GOD AND THE RACE, Genesis 1-11
3. The Judgment and Renewal of the Earth, Genesis 6:8-11:26
15. What did Noah’s drunkenness show regarding him? Regarding his sons?
NOAH’S DESCENDANTS
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. Ham would become the father of Canaan.
These are the three sons of Noah, and from these [men] the whole earth was populated and scattered with inhabitants.
And Noah began to farm and cultivate the ground and he planted a vineyard.
He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he was uncovered and lay exposed inside his tent.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw [by accident] the nakedness of his father, and [to his father’s shame] told his two brothers outside.
So Shem and Japheth took a robe and put it on both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
When Noah awoke from his wine [induced stupor], he knew what his younger son [Ham] had done to him.
So he said, “Cursed be Canaan [the son of Ham]; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers.” [Deu_27:16]
He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.
“May God enlarge [the land of] Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.”
Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Genesis 9:18-29
NOAH’S THREE SONS
Noah’s sin reminds us how weak are the best of men; liable to fall, even after the most marvelous deliverances. The love of strong drink will drag a preacher of righteousness into the dust. But if our brethren sin, let us not parade or tell their faults, but cover them with the mantle of divine love. We may abhor the sin, but let us restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, remembering that we also may be tempted. See Gal_6:1-18 :
l-4. The Semitic races have been the source of religious light and teaching to the world. God has been known in their tents. The Japhetic races are the great colonizers and populators of the world, overflowing their own boundaries, and participating in the religious privileges of the Shemites. The progressive ideas of the race of Japheth, which, of course, includes the Indo-European race, have also pervaded the world. The Hamitic races, of which Canaan was one, have always gravitated downward.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Genesis 9:18-29
F. Noah after the Flood (Chap. 9)
9:18-23 In spite of God’s grace to Noah, he sinned by becoming drunk and then lying naked in his tent. When Ham saw him and reported the matter to his brothers, they covered their father’s shame without looking on his naked body.
9:24, 25 When he awoke, Noah pronounced a curse on Canaan. The question arises, “Why did the curse fall on Canaan instead of Ham?” One possible explanation is that the evil tendency which was manifested in Ham was even more pronounced in Canaan. The curse was thus a prophecy of his immoral conduct and its fitting punishment. Another explanation is that Canaan himself committed some vulgar act against his grandfather, and that Noah later became aware of it. Noah knew what his younger son had done to him. It may be that verse 24 refers to Canaan as Noah’s youngest grandson, rather than to Ham as his younger son. In the Bible, “son” often means “grandson” or other descendant. In this event, Canaan was not cursed for his father’s sin, but for his own. Yet another possibility is that God’s grace allowed Noah to curse only a small segment of Ham’s descendants and not a possible third of the human race.
9:26-29 Canaan was cursed to serve Shem and Japheth. The Canaanites’ servitude to the Israelites may be seen in Jos_9:23 and Jdg_1:28. This passage has been used to suggest the slavery of the black people, but there is absolutely no support for this view. Canaan was the ancestor of the Canaanites, who dwelt in the Holy Land before Israel arrived. There is no evidence that they were black people. Shem and Japheth were blessed with dominion. Verse 27 may suggest Japheth’s sharing in spiritual blessings through Shem’s descendants, the Israelites.
There is a dispute as to whether Shem or Japheth was the oldest son of Noah. Gen_10:21 may read “Shem . . . the brother of Japheth the elder” or “Shem . . . the older brother of Japheth” (NKJV marg.) The latter is the preferred reading. Shem appears first in the genealogies of Gen_5:32 and 1Ch_1:4.
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