Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

The land

Bible References

The land

Judges 18:7
Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were in it living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no ruler humiliating them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

Ham

Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
Psalm 78:51
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first issue of their virility in the tents of Ham.
Psalm 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.