Chronicles I 4:40

40 And they found abundant and good pastures, and the land before them wide, and peace and quietness; for some of the children of Cham who dwelt there before.

Chronicles I 4:40 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 4:40

And they found fat pasture and good
In or near the valley of Gedor:

and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable;
there was room enough for them and their flocks, and they had no enemies on either side to disturb them:

for [they] of Ham had dwelt there of old;
either the Canaanites who descended from Canaan the son of Ham, and had never been expelled from thence; or the Philistines, who were a colony of the Egyptians, the posterity of Ham; and these inhabitants being of this cursed race, the Simeonites scrupled not to dispossess them.

Chronicles I 4:40 In-Context

38 These went by the names of princes in their families, and they increased abundantly in their fathers' households.

39 And they went till they came to Gerara, to the east of Gai, to seek pasture for their cattle.

40 And they found abundant and good pastures, and the land before them wide, and peace and quietness; for some of the children of Cham who dwelt there before.

41 And these who are written by name came in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and they smote the people's houses, and the Minaeans whom they found there, and utterly destroyed them until this day: and they dwelt in their place, because pasture there for their cattle.

42 And some of them, of the sons of Symeon, went to mount Seir, five hundred men; and Phalaettia, and Noadia, and Raphaia, and Oziel, sons of Jesi, their rulers.