A Chronological Bible Reading- 19 Noah's Descendents and Related Events

Sons To Overspread the Earth

Genesis 9:18-19 Shem, Ham and Japheth

Genesis 10:32; 10:1 Descendants listed

Sons of Japheth
Genesis 10:2-5
I Chronicles 1:5-7
                Isles of the Gentiles

Sons of Ham
Genesis 10: 6-20
I Chronicles 1:8-16
                Nimrod- a mighty man
                Beginning of Babel
                Building of Nineveh
                Sodom and Gomorrah
                Birth of the Philistines

Sons of Shem
Genesis 10:31; 10:21-23
I Chronicles 1:17
               Birth of Arphaxad
               I Chronicles 1:24
               Genesis 11:10


I compiled the names that I thought were noteworthy. I also made note of interesting details that may have been overlooked when reading the scriptures.

Why was the son of Shem--Arphaxad, separated out like that? I found that interesting.



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God's Name ~ Day 62

Today's reading Ezekiel 36:1 - Ezekiel 47:12

"Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went." Ez. 36:12 KJB

God was trying to clean up his own name because of what the Israelites had done. As they went around and had done wickedly they were not only making themselves look bad, they were also making God look bad among the heathen. When we do wrong and then tell people we are Christians it makes God look bad. We have his reputation to uphold.

There was an article written in the Wall St. Journal that quotes the CEO of Google as saying, "Mr. Schmidt is surely right, though, that the questions go far beyond Google. "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites."

The world does not even put a value on your family name, much less on what we are doing to God's name when we act inappropriately as Christians.

How can we lead others to Christ if we are living a life full of sinful choices? People need the Lord. Does your life, does my life, reflect who God really is?

Godly Teaching ~ Day 57

Today's reading Jeremiah 33:23 - 47:7

"And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever." Jeremiah 35:18,19 KJB

The house of the Rachabites were obeying what they had been taught from their fathers. They knew what to do and they did it. They were blessed for it.

As I raise my children there needs to be godly things that I teach them that I have been taught as I read my Bible and grow in the Lord. I need to pass that down to them not only verbally but by example. Godliness is better caught then taught, as the saying goes.

Let us give our children a godly heritage!

Godly Heritage ~ Day 29

Today's reading I Chronicles 1:1 - I Chronicles 9:44

"...by their generation..." I Chr. 7:6 KJB

As I read the genealogies in these chapters it make me think of the Christian heritage I want to pass down to my own children. I want to leave them a proud Christian heritage that stood on the King James Bible and spread the gospel to a lost and dying world.

Passing Down ~ Day 24

Today's reading II Samuel 22:19- I Kings 7:37

"Bring thou down to the grave" I Kings 2:9 KJB

Before he died, David passed a lot down to his son Solomon. His kingdom, his wealth and his enemies. David wanted Solomon to take vengeance on a few people that had down him wrong in his life.

Do I want to pass that kind of legacy down to my children? Wouldn't it be better if I told them how God forgives and that I am not perfect either. My children will give away how I talk about others in our home. I want them to always treat people with kindness. Whether they have done my family wrong or not.