Genesis 10:6-9

The Hamites

6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.

7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

8 Cush was the father^[a] of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

Genesis 10:6-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 10

This chapter gives an account of the posterity of the three sons of Noah, by whom the world was peopled after the flood, Ge 10:1 of the posterity of Japheth, Ge 10:2-5 of the posterity of Ham, Ge 10:6-20 and of the posterity of Shem, Ge 10:21-32.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 19:9; 2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 16:8; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 18:1; Isaiah 20:3; Isaiah 43:3; Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 30:4,9; Ezekiel 38:5; Nahum 3:9; Zephaniah 2:12; Zephaniah 3:10
• 2. Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 38:5
• 3. ver 15; S Genesis 9:18
• 4. Isaiah 43:3
• 5. S Genesis 2:11
• 6. Ezekiel 27:22
• 7. Genesis 25:3; 1 Kings 10:1; 2 Chronicles 9:1; Job 1:15; Job 6:19; Job 16:11; Psalms 72:10,15; Isaiah 60:6; Jeremiah 6:20; Ezekiel 27:22; Ezekiel 38:13; Joel 3:8
• 8. 1 Chronicles 1:32; Isaiah 21:13; Jeremiah 25:23-24; Jeremiah 49:8; Ezekiel 27:15,20; Ezekiel 38:13
• 9. Micah 5:6
• 10. 2 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Chronicles 16:8; Isaiah 18:2
• 11. Genesis 25:27; Genesis 27:3

Footnotes

• [a]. "Father" may mean "ancestor" or "predecessor" or "founder" ; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.