Psalms 105:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Israel; Jacob in his person, and with his children. Of Ham, i.e. Egypt, so called here, also Psalms 78:5, Psalms 106:22; from that cursed Ham, Genesis 9:22, who was the father of Mizraim, or the Egyptians, Genesis 10:6. And the psalmist seems to call it by this name, to intimate that they were the people of God's curse, and thereby to caution the Israelites against returning to that land, which they were particularly forbidden to do, Deuteronomy 17:16.

Psalms 105:23

23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.