Proverbs 16:18
King James Version
18 Pride goeth before destruction,
and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Herein begins the series on Canaanite "sins".
Starting with Nimrod.
Who was he?
Genesis 10:8
King James Version
8 And Cush begat Nimrod:
he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
What did he accomplish?
Genesis 10:9-10
King James Version
9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord:
wherefore it is said,
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,
and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh,
in the land of Shinar.
What made Babel sin against GOD?
Genesis 11:1-2
King James Version
11 And the whole earth was of one language,
and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass,
as they journeyed from the east,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;
and they dwelt there.
Genesis 11:3
King James Version
3 And they said one to another,
Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.
And they had brick for stone,
and slime had they for morter.
Genesis 11:4
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4 And they said,
Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven;
and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:5-7
King James Version
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower,
which the children of men builded.
6 And the Lord said,
Behold,
the people is one,
and they have all one language;
and this they begin to do:
and now nothing will be restrained from them,
which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language,
that they may not understand
one another's speech.
Genesis 11:8
King James Version
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence
upon the face of all the earth:
and they left off to build the city.
Genesis 11:9
King James Version
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel;
because the Lord did there confound
the language of all the earth:
and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad
upon the face of all the earth.
The timeline:
Genesis 11:1-10
10 These are the generations of Shem*:
Shem was an hundred years old,
and begat Arphaxad
two years after the flood:
Now, we turn to Canaan, son of Ham.
Who got cursed by Noah, in place of his father.
We puzzled over it, momentarily.
Until SPIRIT helped me figure it out.
It's important to know how Canaan was cursed.
For the future of all Canaanites hung upon it.
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*NOTE:
Shem's son was Arphaxad.
Arphaxad's son was Salah.
Shelah (Salah) → EBER (founder of the Hebrews) → Peleg → Reu → Serug → Nahor → Terah → ABRAHAM (Abram)
Related material:
1 Chronicles 1 -- from Adam
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