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eastern Mediterranean (10:6-20). The Shemites remained centralized generally in the eastern Mediterranean although many of these places in the whole chapter are unknown today (10:21-31)
Then something sinister began to evolve in Ham’s wider family. As the peoples of the earth after the flood rooted themselves in their regions, the Hamites established solidarity with countless generations of those who were hostile against the Seed of the woman. For example, in 10:6, Mizraim is named as a descendant of Ham along with Canaan. Mizraim’s descendants later became the Egyptians who were and always have been in antithesis to the Promise. Another grandson of Ham, Nimrod (10:8), juxtapositioned himself against the Promise and its people for centuries by posting himself and his kingdom up in Babylon and Assyria and taking on the character of “a mighty warrior on the earth…and a
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