Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Genesis)
我夜间的歌曲《创世记》
Text: Genesis 10: 6-20
MEDITATION
Genesis 10:6-20
6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.”
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).
13 Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14 Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim).
15 Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;
16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite;
17 the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite;
18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.
19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20 These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.
MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE
1. The line of Ham was noted (Genesis 10:6-20).
2. Nimrod
The phrase, “a mighty hunter” is not to be understood in a complimentary way. He became an ambitious king whose territory included Mesopotamia. Ambitious kings in the past saw them employ force cruelly against weaker nations!
经文：创世记 10：6-20
沉思
《创世记 10：6-20》
6含的儿子是古实、麦西、弗、迦南。
7古实的儿子是西巴、哈腓拉、撒弗他、拉玛、撒弗提迦。拉玛的儿子是示巴、底但。
8古实又生宁录，他为世上英雄之首。
9他在耶和华面前是个英勇的猎户，所以俗语说：“像宁录在耶和华面前是个英勇的猎户。”
10他国的起头是巴别、以力、亚甲、甲尼，都在示拿地。
11他从那地出来往亚述去，建造尼尼微、利河伯、迦拉，
12和尼尼微、迦拉中间的利鲜，这就是那大城。
13麦西生路低人、亚拿米人、利哈比人、拿弗土希人、
14帕斯鲁细人、迦斯路希人、迦斐托人，从迦斐托出来的有非利士人。
15迦南生长子西顿，又生赫，
16和耶布斯人、亚摩利人、革迦撒人、
17希未人、亚基人、西尼人、
18亚瓦底人、洗玛利人、哈马人。后来迦南的诸族分散了。
19迦南的境界是从西顿向基拉耳的路上，直到加沙；又向所多玛、蛾摩拉、押玛、洗扁的路上，直到拉沙。20这就是含的后裔，各随他们的宗族、方言、所住的地土、邦国。