Foundations #8: The Table of Nations

I. Introduction

A. Foundations #1: The God of Creation

B. Foundations #2: The God Who Made Us

C. Foundations #3: The Corruption of God’s Creation

D. Foundations #4: The Fallen First Family

E. Foundations #5: The Line of the Promise

F. Foundations #6: The Flood of Noah (Part 1)

G. Foundations #6: The Flood of Noah (Part 2)

H. Foundations #7: Universal Covenant

II. Noah’s Family after the flood (Genesis 9:18-27)

A. Noah’s family in relation to the whole world (Gen 9:18-19)

B. Noah’s Excess (Gen 9:20-21)

C. Ham’s Sin (Gen 9:22)

D. Shem and Japheth’s remedy (Gen 9:23)

E. Noah’s curse and blessing (Gen 9:24-27)

III. The Death of Noah (Genesis 9:28-29)

IV. The Table of Nations (Genesis 10:1-32)

A. Japheth’s Family Line (Gen 10:2-5)

Magog, Meshech, Tubal (Eze 38:2; 39:6)

Madai (Medes) (Esther 1:3, Daniel 9:1)

B. Ham’s Family Line (Gen 10:6-20)

Cush and Nimrod, the mighty Hunter (v. 8) associated with Babel, Shinar (v. 10), Nineveh (v. 12)

Egypt (Genesis 41-50, Exodus)

Philistines (Judges, 1 Samuel)

Canaan

Heth (Hittites), Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites (Deut 7:1)

Gaza (Judges 16:1–3)

Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim (Gen 14, Gen 19)

C. Shem’s Family Line (Gen 10:21-31)

Asshur (Assyrians)

Aram (Arameans or Syrians)

Large portions of the biblical books Ezra (4:8–6:8 and 7:12–26) and Daniel (2:4–7:28) are written in Aramaic, as are Jer 10:11 and two words of Gen 31:47

Uz (Gen 10:23) - Job 1:1

Eber (Gen 10:25)

V. Summary of Noah’s sons’ clans reiterating Gen 9:19 (Gen 10:32)

VI. Foundational Importance

Excess of wine can often lead to disgrace.

Honoring one’s parents has it’s basis in Genesis, an example of which is Genesis 9:20-29.

There is no curse of “Ham” or on black people as the descendents of Canaan. This is an idea propounded by evolutionistic, anti-biblical thinking in religious cults like Mormonism and Jehovah’s witnesses.

Mormonism - Mormon doctrine from 1958 states: We know the circumstances under which the posterity of Cain (and later of Ham) were cursed with what we call Negroid racial characteristics. Hodge, Bodie. Tower of Babel . Master Books. Kindle Edition. Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1958), p. 616.

Jehovah’s witnesses - Question: Is there anything in the Bible that reveals the origin of the Negro? Answer: It is generally believed that the curse which Noah pronounced upon Canaan was the origin of the Black race. Certain it is that when Noah said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren,” he pictured the future of the Colored race. Hodge, Bodie. Tower of Babel . Master Books. Kindle Edition. “Bible Questions and Answers,” The Golden Age (July 24, 1929): p. 702.

God’s plan to populate the earth with mankind, his image bearers, continues and is realized in the creation and settling of families, people groups, lands, and nations.

The Promise of the seed from Genesis 3:15 is still in effect at this point and is realized in the line of Shem.

All people alive today are related! There is only one ‘race’ of men.