Nimrod and Babel

 

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

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8 And Cush begat Nimrod: 

he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

What did he accomplish?

Genesis 10:9-10

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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:

ORIGIN of Canaanites

1 Chronicles 1 -- from Adam

Generations of Noah

Babylon

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ORIGIN of Canaanites

 

Genesis 9:18-19

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18 And the sons of Noah, 

that went forth of the ark, 

were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: 

and Ham is the father of Canaan.

19 These are the three sons of Noah: 

and of them was the whole earth overspread.

Noah had three sons.

Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

From the three, Ham is the father of Canaan.

Whom the Canaanites descended from.

Genesis 10:6

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6 And the sons of Ham; 

Cush, and Mizraim, 

and Phut, and Canaan.

Genesis 10:7-12

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7 And the sons of Cush; 

Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, 

and Raamah, and Sabtechah: 

and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

8 And Cush begat Nimrod: 

he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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.

11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, 

and builded Nineveh, 

and the city Rehoboth, 

and Calah,

12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: 

the same is a great city.

Genesis 10:13-14

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13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, 

and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

14 And Pathrusim, 

and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) 

and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10:15-18

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15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,

16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, 

and the Hamathite: 

and afterward were the families of the Canaanites 

spread abroad.

Genesis 10:19

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19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, 

as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; 

as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, 

and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

Genesis 10:20

King James Version

20 These are the sons of Ham, 

after their families, 

after their tongues, 

in their countries, 

and in their nations.

Nimrod plays an important part, being the son of Cush.

Know how he, and his people, sinned against the LORD.

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Sons of NOAH

Sons of HAM

Noah curses CANAAN

Canaanite

NOAH's line

Cities of the Bible

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