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 went on and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, [how they were] living securely in the style of the Sidonians, quiet and peaceful; and there was no oppressive magistrate in the land humiliating them in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

Ham

Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw [by accident] the nakedness of his father, and [to his father’s shame] told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 10:6
the sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim [from whom descended the Egyptians], Put, and Canaan;
Psalm 78:51

He killed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first and best of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham.
Psalm 105:23

Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.