1 Chronicles 4:40
Good News Translation
They found plenty of fertile pasture lands there in a stretch of open country that was quiet and peaceful. The people who had lived there before were Hamites.

New Revised Standard Version
where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful; for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.

Contemporary English Version
and they found a lot of good pastureland that was quiet and undisturbed. This had once belonged to the Hamites,

New American Bible
They found abundant and good pastures, and the land was spacious, quiet, and peaceful—for the Hamites dwelt there formerly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they found fat pastures, and very good, and a country spacious, and quiet, and fruitful, in which some of the race of Cham had dwelt before.

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And they found fat pastures, and very good, and a country spacious, and quiet, and fruitful, in which some of the race of Cham had dwelt before.

the land.

Judges 18:7-10 So the five men going on came to Lais: and they saw how the people dwelt therein without any fear, according to the custom of the Sidonians, secure and easy, having no man at all to oppose them, being very rich, and living separated, at a distance from Sidon and from all men. . . .

Ham.

Genesis 9:22-29 Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without. . . .

Genesis 10:6 And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.

Psalm 78:51 And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.

Psalm 105:23 And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

Context
More Descendants of Judah
39And they went forth to enter into Gador as far as to the east side of the valley, to seek pastures for their flocks. 40And they found fat pastures, and very good, and a country spacious, and quiet, and fruitful, in which some of the race of Cham had dwelt before.41And these whose names are written above, came in the days of Ezechias king of Juda: and they beat down their tents, and slew the inhabitants that were found there, and utterly destroyed them unto this day: and they dwelt in their place, because they found there fat pastures.…
Cross References
Judges 18:7
So the five men going on came to Lais: and they saw how the people dwelt therein without any fear, according to the custom of the Sidonians, secure and easy, having no man at all to oppose them, being very rich, and living separated, at a distance from Sidon and from all men.

1 Chronicles 4:39
And they went forth to enter into Gador as far as to the east side of the valley, to seek pastures for their flocks.

1 Chronicles 4:39
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