Genesis 9:24

_AND NOAH AWOKE FROM HIS WINE, AND KNEW WHAT HIS YOUNGER SON HAD DONE UNTO HIM._ And knew what his younger son had done unto him, [Hebrew, _ HAQAATAAN_ (H6996)] - the little, small (son). Jewish writers take this expression to mean grandson; and to their view Dr. Patrick inclines, on the ground that it does not seem pertinent to the course of the narrative to mention the order of birth, but very proper if Canaan is pointed at to distinguish him from the rest. Modern scholars, for the most part, consider the term as applied to Ham, whose position, however, in his father's family is not easily defined. The Hebrew word above quoted, when used in reference to age, signifies younger....

24._And Noah awoke_. It might seem to some that Noah, although he had just cause of anger, still conducted himself with too little modesty and gravity; and that he ought, at least, silently to have mourned over his sin before God; and also, with shame, to have given proof of his repentance to men: but that now as if he had committed no offense, he fulminates with excessive severity against his son. (297) Moses, however, does not here relate reproaches uttered by Noah, under the excitement of rage and anger, but rather introduces him speaking in the spirit of prophecy. Wherefore we ought not to doubt, that the holy man was truly humbled (as he ought to be) under a sense of his fault, and honestly reflected on his own deserts; but now, having received the grant of pardon, and his condemnation being removed, he proceeds as the herald of Divine judgment. It is not indeed to be doubted that t...

24-29 Noah declares a curse on Canaan, the son of Ham; perhaps this grandson of his was more guilty than the rest. A servant of servants, that is, The meanest and most despicable servant, shall he be, even to his brethren. This certainly points at the victories in after-times obtained by Israel over the Canaanites, by which they were put to the sword, or brought to pay tribute. The whole continent of Africa was peopled mostly by the descendants of Ham; and for how many ages have the better parts of that country lain under the dominion of the Romans, then of the Saracens, and now of the Turks! In what wickedness, ignorance, barbarity, slavery, and misery most of the inhabitants live! And of the poor negroes, how many every year are sold and bought, like beasts in the market, and conveyed from one quarter of the world to do the work of beasts in another! But this in no way excuses the cov...

Verse Genesis 9:24. See Clarke on Ge 9:22...

- XXX. The Prophecy of Noah 18. כנען _k__e__na‛an_, “Kena‘an, bowed down.” 19. נפץ _nāpats_, “break, scatter, spread.” פוּץ _pûts_, “break, scatter, flow.” 20. כרם _kerem_, “orchard, vineyard.” 21. יין _yayı̂n_, “wine; related: ferment.” After the blessing on the new heads of the human race has been pronounced, and the covenant with them renewed, we are prepared for a new development of human action. This appears, however, in the form of an event which is itself a meet preliminary to the subsequent stage of affairs. The prophecy of Noah, delivered in the shape of a sol

EXPOSITION GENESIS 9:18 AND THE SONS OF NOAH, THAT WENT FORTH OF THE ARK, WERE SHEM, AND HAM, AND JAPHETH, who are here again mentioned as the heads of the nations into which the family of man developed, the writer having described the important modifications made upon the law of nature and the covenant of grace, and being now about to proceed with the onward course of human history. The present section, extending to Genesis 9:27, is usually assigned to the Jehovistic author (Tuch,Bleek, Kalisch, Colenso, Kuenen), though by Davidson it is ascribed to a so-called redactor, with the exception of the present clause, which is recognized as the Jehovist's contribution to the story. The ground of this apportionment is the introduction of the name Jehovah in...

AND NOAH AWOKE FROM HIS WINE,.... From his sleep, which his wine brought on him; when the force and strength of that was gone, and when not only he awaked, but came to himself, and was sober; AND KNEW WHAT HIS YOUNGER SON HAD DONE TO HIM; either by revelation, as some, or prophecy, as Ben Gersom, or by the relation of his two sons, whom, when finding himself covered with another's garment, he might question how it came about, and they told him the whole affair: some, as Aben Ezra, Ben Gersom, and Abendana, think that this was not Ham, the younger son of Noah, and whom some also will have not to be the youngest, being always placed middlemost, but Canaan, the fourth and youngest son of Ham; and whom Noah indeed might call his younger, or "his son, the little one" p; as it was usual for grandchildren to be called the sons of their grandfather; see Genesis 29:5 and Noah might

CHAPTER 9 The Earth Replenished _ 1. The divine commission (Genesis 9:1)_ 2. The covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:8) 3. The token of the covenant (Genesis 9:12) 4. The family of Noah (Genesis 9:18) 5. Noah's drunkenness (Genesis 9:20) 6. Noah's prophecy (Genesis 9:25) 7. Noah's death (Genesis 9:28) A new start is made after

THE DRUNKENNESS OF NOAH; HIS CURSE AND HIS BLESSINGS. In this section Genesis 9:28 f. belongs to P. If Genesis 5:32; Genesis 7:6; Genesis 9:28 f. are read together, we have an account of Noah similar to the rest of the genealogy in Genesis 5. Genesis 9:18 is from J, but not entirely from the same stratum. Genesis 9:18 f. belongs to J's genealogical table in Genesis 10. Genesis 9:20 has close poin

AWOKE. Septuagint _eknepho,_ only here 1 Samuel 25:37; Habakkuk 2:7; Habakkuk 2:19. and Joel 1:5. In N.T. only 1 Corinthians 15:34, means very much awake, awake to wisdom. YOUNGER. than Japheth, not Shem. See notes on Genesis 5:32; Genesis 10:1....