Genesis 9:24-28

9:25

Cursed <0779> [Cursed.]

lowest of slaves <05650> [a servant.]

The devoted nations, which God destroyed before Israel, were descended from Canaan: and so were the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, who were at length subjugated with dreadful destruction by the Greeks and Romans. The Africans, who have been bought and sold like beasts, were also his posterity.

9:26

Worthy <01288> [Blessed.]

Lord <03068> [the Lord.]

[Sem.]

slave <05650> [his servant. or, servant to them.]

9:27

enlarge <06601> [enlarge. or, persuade. Japheth.]

Japheth denotes enlargement, and how wonderfully have his boundaries been enlarged; for not only Europe, but Asia Minor, part of Armenia, Iberia, the whole of the vast regions of Asia north of Taurus, and probably America, fell to the share of his posterity.

live <07931> [he shall dwell.]

These words may mean either that God or that Japheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem. In either sense the prophecy has been literally fulfilled.

live <07931> [dwell.]