YouTube: Naked Bible Podcast 159 – Noah’s Nakedness, The Sin of Ham & The Curse of Canaan
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem (name, enrichment: BEC), Ham (hot, burnt: Fausset’s) and Japheth (enlargement: SBD). (Ham was the father of Canaan.) These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth. – Genesis 9:18-19 (NIV)
Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
– Revelation 14:8 (NASU)
Chapter 10:6-10
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began (chalal) to be (hayah) a mighty one (gibbowr) in the earth. He was a mighty (gibbowr) hunter before (paniym ) the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty (gibbowr) hunter before (paniym ) the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel…in the land of Shinar
– Genesis 10:8-10 (KJV)
Nimrod: rebellion (BD&B) (Hitchcock’s) (Smith’s)
Before: paniym – against (Strong’s)
Began: chalal – to profane, to defile, to pollute, to desecrate, to begin ritually b) sexually (BD&B)
To be: hayah – to be, to become, to come to pass, to exist, to happen, to fall out (BD&B)
Mighty one: gibbowr – warrior, tyrant, giant (Strong’s)
…he runneth upon me like a giant (gibbowr) – Job 16:14 (KJV)
And Chus begot Nebrod: he began to be a giant (gigas) upon the earth. He was a giant (gigas) hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As Nebrod the giant (gigas) hunter before the Lord. – Genesis 10:8 (Septuagint)
Nimrod (Chapter 11:1-4)
Established first (v.4)
They want to to the Spiritual
Babylon: The Gate of God (ISBE) (Fausset’s) (Easton’s)
Tar for
Taught to
Portrayed
Established the first
They used brick instead of stone – Genesis 11:3
Bricks imply , (v.3)
(God) ‘If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it. – Exodus 20:25 (NASU)
…you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, – 1 Peter 2:5 (NASU)
will be used to make the people
…and tar for mortar. – Genesis 11:3 (NIV)
(vv.5-9)
Therefore its name was called Babel (Babel: from balal – Strong’s), because there the Lord confused (balal) the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
– Genesis 11:9 (NASB95)