And they found fat pasture and good, and the land [was] wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for [they] of Ham had dwelt there of old.
Ver. 40. And they found fat pasture and good.] This tempted the Simeonites to set upon them, as the wealth of Cyprus did the old Romans; a and as the pearls usually cast out with the flood and gathered at the ebb, drew Caesar's affection for the conquest of Britain. b
For quiet, and peaceable.] See on Judges 18:27,28 .
And they of Ham had dwelt there.] The cursed Canaanites.
a Sext. Rufus
b Suetonius, Julius Caesar, l. 1. c. 47. 1:95