Genesis 10 is the playbill that lists the main characters in the upcoming action and sets the stage for all that comes next.
- “the sons of Noah,
- Ham whose sons settled what is now called the Middle East
- Cush / Ethiopia
- Nimrod / Babylon
- Mizraim / Egypt
- Phut / Mediterranean coast of Africa,
- Canaan / Eastern coast of Mediterranean
- Cush / Ethiopia
- Shem
- Arphaxad / Sargon of Akkad
- Ashur / Assyria
- Eber / Hebrews
- Japheth – scattered northerly to Europe, Iran and Russia out of the line of fire of “Action!” at this stage of history, returning millennia later to disastrous results.
- Ham whose sons settled what is now called the Middle East
The Genesis 11 account of the Canaanites being one of the first civilizations is anthropologically validated through tracking languages.
Noah’s pre-flood language, assuredly shared by his three sons, diverged into a variety of languages formed
- naturally by isolated people groups in response to diverse ecologies and
- deliberately by distancing themselves from outsiders.
This process is apparent in the root S[h]emitic language which can biblically be determined to be Hebrew, Shem’s original language via “Shem the father / authority of all the children of Eber / the Hebrews.” (Genesis 10:21).
This ancient source language branched into related languages not among family lineages but within a confined locality, spread by rulers conquering and amalgamating foreigners into one nation under god as the Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian.
The numerical data in Genesis 11:10-26 dates Abram’s birth only about 300 years after Noah’s flood, therefore his maturation and career facing off against the Adversary’s first post-flood Antichrists. Accordingly, he is the prototype Christ / Chosen Authority / Father for all succeeding generations. who identify spiritually with YHVH.
“Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow….Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he…
thou, Isra-el / Prince of Power, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed / reproduction of Abraham my friend…[like him] whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.\Fear thou not; for [as with Abraham] I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness…For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.” (Isaiah 41:1-10, Romans 4:13)
“Now the LORD had said unto Abram,Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee [compare and contrast to the others] a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great…and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed [vs standing practice by empires at the time of being destroyed].” (Genesis 12:1-3)
The following list gives the nations confronted by Abram, in the order in which he encountered them.
- Arameans, founded by Aram, son of Shem, brother to Arphaxad/Sargon and Ashur/the Assyrian in the region now called Syria.
- Canaanites
- the Phoenicians [Greek name], from the famous purple dye extracted and exported from the region now called Lebanon. After Canaanite Phoenicians emigrated to Carthage in the 9th century BC, they were known by the North African translation of Punic as in the Punic Wars vying with up-and-coming Rome for control of the Mediterranean.
- Ugarites, AKA the Kingdom of Ugarit, a city-state located like the Phoenicians on the Mediterranean coast in what is today northern Syria, with archeological evidence of immediate post-flood restoration of pre-flood occupation.
- Amorites, hybrid giants
- Edomites, founded by Jacob’s brother Esau to replace his lost birthright
- Moabites, founded by Lot, protected by his uncle Abram and by YHVH
The Canaanite civilization was not based on ancestry but was a culture adopted by many nations. Archaeological findings validate the biblical record “that the Israelite culture largely overlapped with and was largely Canaanite in nature.”
“cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, And say…Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.” (Ezekiel 16:2-3)
The Book of Jasher is rejected as an invention by many Bible scholars for their own reasons.
However, the recent surge in finding, translating and accepting Sumerian documents as real provides legitimacy for Jasher as an historical record without requiring it to be canonical, particular when supported by biblical accounts.
From the book of Jasher, giving details not provided in the Bible but consistent with the Bible therefore credible:
“And Abram knew the Lord, and he went in his ways and instructions, and the Lord his God was with him. And Terah his father was in those days, still captain of the host of king Nimrod, and he still followed strange gods. [To protect his son and himself from Nimrod who was out to kill them as dangerous rebels] Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram, and all the souls of his household and went with them from Ur Casdim / Chaldees to go to the land of Canaan.
And when they came as far as the land of Haran they remained there, for it was exceedingly good land for pasture, and of sufficient extent for those who accompanied them.”
This stage of settling Mesopotamia was equivalent to the United States’ settling of the Wild West. We need to understand the obvious therefore unstated practice of naming “Haran” in memory of Patriarch / Leader Terah’s son Haran, assassinated by Nimrod and not protected by YHVH “for his heart was not perfect with the Lord”. (Jasher 12)
“And the people of the land of Haran saw that Abram was good and upright with God and men, and that the Lord his God was with him, and some of the people of the land of Haran came and joined Abram, and he taught them the instruction of the Lord and his ways; and these men remained with Abram in his house and they adhered to him…
And Abram remained in the land three years, and at the expiration of three years the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him; I am the Lord who brought thee forth from Ur Casdim / of the Chaldees” (Jasher 11:14-15, 13:3-9)
So [after] Terah died in Haran [of old age]. Abram departed [his father’s household at]…Haran…and into the land of Canaan they came.” (Genesis 12:1-5)
This is the first indication of the plot [get the double entendre?] of land grant in what has become an existential point of contention in the Middle East affecting the entire world.
Northern Syria bordered by the Euphrates River IS NOT PART OF THE LAND GRANT.
After reviewing all the records of the Canaanites we understand that Haran in Padan-Aram is in the land of Canaan.
But there’s more.
At some point Abram’s immediate family arrived at Mount Hermon, located in what is currently called the Golan Heights currently contested by Israel and Syria with fighting prevented by a United Nations Peacekeeping force. Its value lies in its height as seen on its snow-covered peaks, providing surveillance as far as 118 miles distance in a straight line of sight,
This is as far as Hebron.
“Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan…And the LORD said unto Abram…Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Then [but?] Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in Hebron.” (Genesis 13:14-18) Undoubtedly 36
“it came to pass in the days of Amraphel / king of the giant people, AKA Nimrod [Amorite] king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations. [eastern nations]..That these made war with [Canaanite] Bera king of [the city-state of] Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar…Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him smote [other giant clans] Rephaims…Zuzims…Emins…Horites in their mount Seir, the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods.”
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he [finally got into gear] armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan [a pagan nation into which the breakaway Israelite tribe later merged itself.] And he pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.” (Genesis 14)
The above topographical map shows Abram’s circular travel route from his southern starting point to farthest north, farthest east, and circling back to make a complete loop.
“After these things [Abram proving by his actions his faith in YHVH’s promise of empowerment.] the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying…Unto thy seed have I given this land..”
Based on the immediate context, this is the land just surveyed (albeit under duress) by Abram.
“from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.” (Genesis 15:7,18)
Based on these stated parameters, a much bigger territory is claimed by Greater Israel.
The problem with this map is that it is using today’s geography rather than the geography at the time the land grant was made.
It is common for rivers to change their courses throughout the geomorphological history.
A biblical example is when Jacob Paddan-aram to return to Canaan, crossing a river which no longer flows through that region. The closest candidate is the Jordan, which currently flows in the opposite direction. This is explainable as tectonic activity in the geologically active era of Noah’s flood and the days of Peleg when Pangea was divided into continents, the era of the patriarchs including Abram.
“When Israel went out of Egypt…Jordan was driven back…The mountains skipped like rams…Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the…God of Jacob. Which turned the rock into a standing [vs flowing] water [the Dead Sea].” (Psalm 114)
The Great Rift, which begins between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountain ranges, runs along the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea, the Red Sea, and continues as far as Zimbabwe. The latest phases of its widespread tectonic movements modified notably the courses of the rivers along the entire length of the Rift, with the deepest place in the Rift on land in the valley of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea.
The geological upheaval caused many watercourses to change their direction. An inscription of Thutmose I reads: “Frontier northern, as far as that inverted water which goeth down in going up.”
So we need to back up to the pre-flood geological record of the geology of this region, defined by four rivers, all of which changed after the massive geological upheavals of Noah’s flood and the breakup of Pangea into continents in the days of Peleg.
From Genesis 2:10-14:
“And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden [now under the Mediterranean Sea]. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from thence [out of the garden] it was parted, and became into four head[water]s:
This location is geologically and eschatologically known to be Jerusalem.
“The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of [the person] Havilah,..[one of] “the sons of Ishmael…dwelt from [eastern border] Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria.” (Genesis 25:16-18)
This is the Arabian desert, “where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
There aren’t any rivers in the Arabian desert at this time, but through satellite radar images taken during the 1994 mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavor Dr. Farouq El-Baz, NASA scientist and Professor at Boston University announced evidence for the ancient riverbed crossing northern Arabia from west to east, comparable to the Mississippi River. This comprises the northern boundary of Ishmael’s land grant / the southern boundary of Israel’s land grant.
From Numbers 34:1-12:
“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying…
- your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom [leaving it alone for now, but in the future ” Edom shall be a possession” (Numbers 24:18), and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
- And your [eastern] border shall turn from the south…to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon: And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon” unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
6 And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
8 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
10 And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham:
11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
12 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
The following Bible maps, however, assigns Havilah just to modern Kuwait, and treats the phrase “as thou goest toward Assyria” as an enormous curve aligned with the Euphrates River, including a huge portion of Iraq, Syria and Jordan within its boundaries, greatly extending the territory claimed for Israel by Zionists.
“And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia / founded by Cush, father of Havilah, Canaan, Mizraim / early Egypt and Phut / Libya. (Genesis 10:6).
There remains a watercourse by the name of Gihon emerging from the ground at Jerusalem itself, but it was reduced to a simple spring not currently big enough to flow through the land of Israel, let alone “compass” the ‘land of Ethiopia’…the land of the Nile tributaries that compass and feed into the Nile itself, as well as flows north, the opposite direction from the Gihon at Jerusalem.
As did the Amazon at one time. Tectonic movement related to the breakup of Pangea helped redirect the water movement in South America reversed the flow of many of the rivers in an easterly direction towards the Atlantic, reversed from their original flow to the Pacific or Caribbean.
At the time of the land grant, the Gihon began at Jerusalem and flowed south as “the river of Egypt”. The flow was reversed into the Nile River by the East African Rift which is still slowly tearing Africa apart in a network of valleys that stretches about 2,175 miles. The remnant watercourse of the Gihon was swallowed by the Gulf of Suez, then the Red Sea, as was the Jordan riverbed by the Dead Sea.
“And the name of the third river is Hiddekel:”
Hiddekel is a compound word composed of “going down to the innermost parts of…” used to describe the Tigris as “the great River”, further defined as “that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria.” (Genesis 2:14). Doesn’t it seem strange that Moses had to define the location of this famous river?
That’ because its location had also been changed by intervening tectonic activity. The Tigris River headwaters are at Lake Hazar in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Turkey, also home to the stratovolcano Mt Ararat, the resting place of Noah’s Ark and doubtless one of the “fountains of the great deep” causing Noah’s flood. “The drainage morphology in the Upper Basin is linked to the uplift of the eastern Taurus Mountains, and deformation of the Arabian foreland system.”
“And the fourth river is Euphrates.”
The Euphrates’ headwaters are in the same region as the Tigris, and geologists using subsurface seismic data under the Mediterranean determined that two separate rivers that had originally emptied west into the Mediterranean had later been diverted by tectonic activity eastward instead, across Syria and Iraq, emptying into the Persian Gulf as the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
This geological detail matches the scriptural reference to the location of this northern boundary of early Israel ~ 1,000 BC . “And David smote Hadar-ezer [name of pagan god of war] king of Zobah unto Hamath [ity-statel of a Canaanite nation], as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.” (I Chronicles 18:3)
The western boundary “the great sea toward the going down of the sun”/ the Mediterranean Sea minus Gaza given to the Philistines / Palestinians with whom David made peace after war, providing prosperity to both nations through their coastal cities of Gaza, Gath, Ashkelon, Ashdod and Ekron with their merchant fleets.
That leaves the eastern boundary, labeled “the Lebanon”.
This is not the modern State of Lebanon which has only existed within its current borders since 1920. Before this date, the designation “Lebanon” concerned a territory with vaguely defined borders, encompassing the mountain range of Mount Lebanon and its outskirts on the Mediterranean coast and the plains of Bekaa and Akkar).
During King David’s golden reign neither Assyria nor Egypt was an enemy nor a tribute territory to Israel. Why would they be? King David brought trade, ergo prosperity to the entire region.
“In that day [of the LORD] shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD…for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour…they shall return even to the LORD.”
In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria [without travel restrictions], and the Egyptians shall serve [the LORD] with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.” (Isaiah 19:19-25)
“the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given…The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims. And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” (Genesis 15:18-21)
What gets buried in the blacklisted giant clans is that Caleb, one of the only two out of twelve spies who believed YHVH would empower the motley crew of Exodus refugees to defeat the formidable Canaanite giants, was himself a hybrid who was granted one of the most valued pieces of real estate.
“Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.” (Joshua 14:6-15)
The Torah cites other Abrahamic nationalities of faith as well in this land grant – as per the priority covenant of dominion – as they also rescued humanity from their oppressors, most prominently Abraham’s son Ishmael’s Islamic Arabs. Details in relevant posts.
Jesus the Christ is called “the son / image and likeness of David because King David fulfilled the mandate for the land grant of Israel as the staging ground for
What has happened, however, over and over in history, is that “The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.” (Jeremiah 11:10-11)
“Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom…All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle / house[hold]of David that is fallen, That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD.” (Amos 9:8-12)
How many times does this have to happen before the message is believed?
Kingdom Come 