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1Ch_4:40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land [was] wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for [they] of Ham had dwelt there of old.
Ver. 40. And they found fat pasture and good.] This tempted the Simeonites to set upon them, as the wealth of Cyprus did the old Romans; {a} and as the pearls usually cast out with the flood and gathered at the ebb, drew Caesar’s affection for the conquest of Britain. {b}
For quiet, and peaceable.] See on Jdg_18:27-28.
And they of Ham had dwelt there.] The cursed Canaanites.
{a} Sext. Rufus
{b} {Suetonius, Julius Caesar, l. 1. c. 47. 1:95}