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 there, and how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority that might trouble them in anyway, 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: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Psalm 78:51
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
Psalm 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.