Table of Nations: Ham's Descendants

The descendants of Noah's son Ham are listed in what is commonly called the Table of Nations, the Israelites' oldest catalog of the peoples of the ancient Near East. While it is difficult to identify with certainty where many of these peoples lived, generally they are believed to have been located as shown here. Ham's sons Cush, Egypt, and Canaan each gave rise to other people groups cited in the list, so they have been shown as broad regions on the map rather than as specific people groups. Ham's son Put is displayed this way as well, though no specific peoples are listed as descending from him. By viewing the sons as regions, one thing that becomes evident is that for the Israelites the term Cushites or land of Cush in most cases likely included more than just the people living directly south of Egypt. It also included those along the entire eastern coast of the Red Sea (see also Numbers 12:1; 2 Chronicles 14:8-14) and even in the area surrounding Babylon.
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Level I: Ham
Level II: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
The sons of Cush:
Level III: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.
The sons of Raamah:
Level IV: Sheba and Dedan
Cush was the father of:
Level III: Nimrod.
The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar. From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calahwhich is the great city.
Egypt was the father of
Level III: Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
Canaan was the father of
Level III: Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.
Later the Canaanite clans scattered and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.