John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 9:27
God shall enlarge Japheth ,.... Or give him a large part of the earth, and large dominions in it, as his posterity have had; for, as Bochart F18 Phaleg. l. 3. c. 1. col. 149. observes, to them belonged all Europe, and lesser Asia, Media, Iberia, Albania, part of Armenia, and all those vast countries to the north, which formerly the Scythians, and now the Tartars inhabit; not to say anything of the new world (America), into which the Scythians might pass through the straights of Anian: ... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 9:24-27
II. The spirit of prophecy comes upon him, and, like dying Jacob, he tells his sons what shall befal them, Gen. 49:1. 1. He pronounces a curse on Canaan the son of Ham (Gen. 9:25), in whom Ham is himself cursed, either because this son of his was now more guilty than the rest, or because the posterity of this son was afterwards to be rooted out of their land, to make room for Israel. And Moses here records it for the animating of Israel in the wars of Canaan; though the Canaanites were a... read more