7 Egypt/’ and “Ethiopia shall stretch out her hands unto God.” Some of the descendants of Cush were settled in Arabia and Upper Asia, among them Nimrod the mighty hunter, and their descendants were among the conquerors of the Israelites in some of their many revolts against the commands of their God. Let us now turn to the record of Canaan, and see on the other hand, in the history of his posterity, the positive fulfilment of the curse. In Genesis x. 15-18, the children of Canaan are enumerated, “ Sidon and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.” In Dent. xx. 10-14 and 16, 17, after the Israelites have been directed to slay the male inhabitants of the cities that are far off and not of the Canaanites, they are expressly commanded, “ But of the cities of these people which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, but thou shalt utterly destroy them ; namely, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites ; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee/’ i. e., the people of God are here expressly directed, instead of making slaves of the descendants of Canaan, the very ones enumerated above, not the other descendants of Ham, to exterminate them. But in Judges ii. 21, the Lord says : “ I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died in iii. 5, 6,. we read : “And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods,” in this way now and on many subsequent occasions blending the blood of the races. In 1 Kings ix, 20, 21, Solomon is said to have levied bondservice upon all the children that were left of them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able to destroy, and their descendants are enumerated finally among those who returned from the captivity. (Nehemiah vii. 57.) Hence it is manifest that the curse pronounced by Noah on
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