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THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL THE HEBREWS & THE SONS OF HAM (6264 hits)


And the sons of Ham, Cush & Mizraim & Phut & Canaan.   "Genesis 10:6"

 

 For years, scholars, theologians and archaeologist have debated the answer to the question, "How did the ancient Israelites look physically?"   Although the scriptures and other historical documents, have left a lot of evidence that confirms the physical appearance of the Israelites, much of this information is still unknown to the masses.  The popular belief today among Christians, scholars and theologians, is that the people known as "Ashkenazi Jews" are the direct descendants of the ancient Israelites. But, can this be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt?

 

 The answer is NO. 

 

 The scriptures which will be used here as the main source, supported by history and archaeology proves that these Jews are not the physical descendants of the ancient Hebrew Israelite nation. In addition it reveals who the true descendants are. The answer may leave you in shock.

 

Israel is mentioned in scripture over 2,500 times. The scriptures contain the Hebrews' entire history. In fact, no other people on the face of the earth have such an extensive recorded history, not even the ancient Egyptians. Everything we need to know about the ancient Hebrews is contained in Scripture. So, let's examine these facts, information that to this day remains unknown or hidden to many "bible" readers.

 

ISRAEL IN THE LAND OF EGYPT

 

 The history of the Israelite nation began in Egypt, the land of Ham. They entered Egypt 66 in number, (not including Joseph, his wife and two sons who were already in Egypt), and left numbering over two million people. Ancient Israel spent 430 years in Egypt. For half that time they enjoyed good favor with the Egyptians, but for the remainder of those years they were enslaved and horribly mistreated by them.

 

 One of the  facts  scripture gives us about Israel (Ysrayl in the Hebrew tongue), is in regard to their physical appearance. Throughout scripture Israel is described as looking like the sons of Ham (Khawm in the Hebrew tongue), in physical appearance.

 

 Ham was one of Noah's three sons, Shem and Japheth were the other two. Noah's descendants repopulated the earth after the Great Flood. Ham's descendants are traced to the families of Africa.  Ham (Khawm) in Hebrew means BLACK, HOT AND BURNT.

 

 Ham had four sons,

 

 1.  CUSH (Ethiopians / Cu****es & Nubians), 2.  MIZRAIM (Egyptians / Khemet),

 

 3.  PHUT (Ancient Libyans or Somalia), 4.  CANAAN (Canaanite, the original inhabitants of the land of Israel) genesis 10:6-19.

 

 All four of Ham's sons and their descendants settled in and around the continent of Africa, this includes the so called Middle East which is also a part of the Continent of Africa.  Ham sons are the people of the African continent, the Ancient Egyptians, Ethiopians, Somalia's, Canaanites etc.

 

 The Israelites are descendants of Noah son SHEM, through Abraham, he is the father of the Hebrew Israelite Nation.  Abraham is the father of Isaac, Isaac is the father of Jacob, Jacob had twelve sons and these sons are the progenitors of the Israelite nation.  The Twelve tribes of Israel are as follows:

 

 REUBEN, GAD, SIMEON, ASHER, LEVI, NAPHILTI, JUDAH, ISSACHAR, ZEBULON, JOSEPH, DAN,  ENJAMIN

 

 Each one of Jacob's sons became a tribal nation, that made up the greater nation of Israel.  EXAMPLE:  Reuben's descendants became known as the tribe of Reuben.  Judah's descendants became known as the tribe of Judah and so on and so forth.  The nation of Israel are the descendants of Jacob who had his name changed to Israel by the Most High (Gen 28:32). That's the basics, lets move on to the meat of our lesson.

 

 We will begin with the story of Jacob's second youngest son Joseph, and his time in Egypt. Joseph was one of the twelve sons of Jacob (Yaaqob in Hebrew). Jacob sired Joseph in his old age, and he was clearly his favorite son. This caused Joseph's brothers to become jealous of him.

 

 Ultimately, their jealousy resulted in Joseph being sold by Arab merchants as a slave to Egyptians.

 

Over the course of time Joseph became Viceroy (Governor) of Egypt and was second in command to Pharaoh in authority. There was a famine in Canaan, where Jacob and his sons lived. (Pharaoh had a dream which Joseph interpreted. His dream told of the forthcoming famine and gave Egypt an opportunity to prepare by storing food.) So, Jacob sent his ten sons to Egypt to buy bread. When Joseph's ten brothers came into Egypt they were brought before him. Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him (Genesis 42:1-8).

 

 Since the biblical Egyptians were a black-skinned people, Joseph had to be black-skinned also. If he were white skinned, his brothers would have recognized him easily among the "black" Egyptians.  His brothers thought Joseph was another Egyptian.

 

 The ancient Egyptians of Joseph time were indeed what we know today as "black",  this is a fact attested to by many.

 

 Gerald Massey, English writer and author of the book, Egypt the Light of the World, wrote, "The dignity is so ancient that the insignia of the Pharaoh evidently belonged to the time when Egyptians wore nothing but the girdle of the Negro." (p 251)

 

 Sir Richard Francis Burton, a 19th century English explorer, writer and linguist in 1883 wrote to Gerald Massey, "You are quite right about the "AFRICAN" origin of the Egyptians. I have 100 human skulls to prove it."

 

 Scientist, R. T. Prittchett, states in his book The Natural History of Man, "In their complex and many of the complexions and in physical peculiarities the Egyptians were an "AFRICAN" race (p 124-125).

 

 The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century B.C.E., saw the Egyptians face to face and described them as black-skinned with woolly hair.

 

 Anthropologist, Count Constatin de Volney (1727-1820), spoke about the race of the Egyptians that produced the Pharaohs. He later paid tribute to Herodotus' discovery when he said:

 

The ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood mixed for several centuries with that of the Romans and Greeks, must have lost the intensity of it's original color, while retaining none the less the imprint of it's original mold. We can even state as a general principle that the face (referring to The Sphinx) is a kind of monument able, in many cases, to attest to or shed light on historical evidence on the origins of the people."

 

The fact that the ancient Egyptians were black-skin prompted Volney to make the following statement:

 

 "What a subject for meditation, just think that the race of black men today our slaves and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, science and even the use of our speech."

 

 The testimony of the ancients, the scriptures, & many Egyptologists, along with archaeology confirms that the Egyptians during biblical times were a "BLACK" PEOPLE. This is important to know, as we continue, we'll see that the bible on multiple occasions describes the ancient Hebrews as looking like the Egyptians in physical appearance.

 

 Next, in Genesis chapter 50 verses 7-11, scripture will describes ALL the Hebrews as looking like the ancient Egyptians.

 

 After Jacob (whose name was changed to Ysrayl - Israel) died in the land of Egypt, all the Hebrews and Egyptians went down to the land of Canaan to bury him (He asked his son to bury him in the land of Canaan with his forefathers Genesis 49:29-30).

 

•Verses 7-8, states that all the elders of Pharaoh's house and all the elders of the land of Egypt along with all the Hebrews (except for their small children) went down.

 

•VERSE 9 says, "It was a very great company."

 

•VERSE 11 says, that the Canaanite saw the funeral procession and said "THIS IS A GRIEVOUS MOURNING TO THE EGYPTIANS".

 

 But, remember this was a mixed multitude of Hebrews and Egyptians going to bury a HEBREW, and the Canaanite identified them both as Egyptians. WHY? Because, the Canaanite saw a great company of black-skinned people who all look like native (black) Egyptians.

 

 If the Hebrews were a white skinned people, as we have been led to believe. The Canaanite who were familiar with both the Hebrews and Egyptians would have acknowledged them both by saying, "THIS IS A GRIEVOUS MOURNING TO THE EGYPTIANS AND HEBREWS."  Without doubt white Hebrews would have stuck out like a sore thump among the black Egyptians.  The Canaanites never identified the Hebrews separately from the Egyptians.  Since it was a Hebrew being buried you know the Israelites were the ones who were mourning the greatest.  The Canaanites seen this and though those Israelites in mourning were Egyptians. 

 

 The scripture goes on to say that the Canaanite named the place where they saw this great mourning for a HEBREW Abel Mizraim which means the meadow of Egypt/Mizraim or Mourning of the Egyptians.

 

 Now let’s go to the greatest and most famous story about the Israelites sojourn in the land of Egypt.  This would be the story of Moses (Moshe).

 

 Many years after the death of Joseph, His brothers and all that generation that entered Egypt during the time he was viceroy. The Hebrew population in Egypt grew tremendously. Because of this, they were no longer looked upon as friendly neighbors, the Egyptians now considered them hostile enemies and enslaved them. 

 

 Because of the Hebrews' population growth the Egyptians decided, they would impose upon them their own form of birth control. Pharaoh decreed that all Hebrew males are killed at birth (Exodus 1), this brings us directly to the story of Moses.

 

  Moses was born a Hebrew - Israelite from the tribe of Levi (exodus 2:1-3). He spent 40 years in the house of pharaoh (Acts 7:23) and was raised as the Pharaoh's Grandson

 

 (Exodus 2: 6, 10).

 

 This was during the same time that Pharaoh ordered all Hebrew males to be killed at birth.   So, with Pharaoh, being a black-skinned descendant of Khawm / Ham, it would of course follow that Moses was black-skinned also.

 

 Many Scholars say the Pharaoh who was on the throne of Egypt at the time of Moses' birth, was Pharaoh Seti I.   He was the father of Rameses II, the Pharaoh of the oppression, also known as Rameses the Great.

 

 George Rawlinson, an English author wrote a book entitled History of Egypt. On page 252, he gives a description of Seti I. He states: "SETI'S FACE WAS THOROUGHLY AFRICAN. HE HAD A STORMY FACE WITH A DEPRESSED FLAT NOSE, THICK LIPS AND HEAVY CHIN."

 

 Moses had to have the same physical characteristics because again, he was raised in the house of Pharaoh, as the grandson of Pharaoh, when Pharaoh ordered all other Hebrew males to be killed at birth. If the Israelites were a white-skinned people, how could Moses the Hebrew survive (secretly) in the house of Pharaoh among black-skinned Egyptians for 40 years, and not be noticed.

 

 Furthermore, after giving the decree (himself) to kill all Hebrew males, how could Pharaoh face and rule over his people, if he knowingly had one living in his house with all the rights and privileges of his own family? Moses survived 40 years in the palace of Pharaoh because he was a black man just as the Egyptians were.

 

 This is deep, Pharaoh looked into the eyes of Moses as a baby and thought this was his own flesh and blood.  He looked into the eyes of Moses as a teenager and thought this was his own flesh and blood.  He looked into the eyes of Moses as a young man in his 20's and 30's and thought this was his own flesh and blood.  Pharaoh seen Moses grow into a man of 40 and he thought this was his own flesh and blood grandson.

 

 Just as the Canaanite couldn't tell the Hebrews from the Egyptians. Pharaoh couldn't either, or Moses would have been killed instantly.

 

 Scripture tells us that Moses killed an Egyptian, after he saw him mistreating a Hebrew. So Moses had to flee from Egypt for his life, because Pharaoh found out and sought to kill him (Exodus 2:12-15).  Pharaoh was trying to kill Moses because he found out Moses was a Hebrew and not his flesh and blood grandson.

 

 Moses fled to the land of Midian (located in Saudi Arabia) where he helped seven daughters of the priest of Midian water their flock, after chasing away some bully shepherds. The girls went home to their father, Reuel and told him what happened.

 

 Exodus 2:16-19

 

 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

 

 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

 

 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

 

 19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

 

  Notice they didn't say a Hebrew in Egyptian clothing saved us, they described Moses as a black-skinned descendant of Ham (Egyptian).

 

 Further proof that Moses was "black" can be found in Exodus 4:6-7, In this passage, Yah / YHWH, (The Creator's name in Hebrew) is showing Moses miracles so that he can prove to the children of Israel who sent him. YAH tells Moses to put his hand into his bosom, which he does. When he takes his hand out, it is LEPROUS (White) as snow. If Moses was already white-skinned, what would have been the miracle in turning the skin of his hand white?

 

 But, since Moses and the rest of the Hebrews were a black skinned people, this would have been a very powerful miracle, to turn his hand  (skin) the opposite color of the rest of his flesh.

 

 Verse 7 says, Yah told Moses to put his hand back into his bosom, and it turned as his other flesh. Meaning that the rest of his body (skin) was other than white or the opposite of white, which is black.

 

 n the book of Numbers, chapter 12 verse 1, Moses' sister and brother, Miriam and Aaron spoke out against him because he married an Ethiopian woman, (not because she was black skinned, but because she was of another culture. / Nation, read Acts 10:28 :) their behavior angered Yah. Verse 10 says, He TURNED MIRIAM LEPROUS, WHITE AS SNOW. Once again if Miriam, who was a Hebrew, was white to begin with, what would have been the curse of turning a white skinned person white?

 

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Deacon, this is a great post!
Thursday, March 26th 2015 at 8:42PM
MIISRAEL Bride
Thank you Sister Bride and I got more to share Thank The Lord..


Thursday, March 26th 2015 at 8:58PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Further proof that Moses was "black" can be found in Exodus 4:6-7, In this passage, Yah / YHWH, (The Creator's name in Hebrew) is showing Moses miracles so that he can prove to the children of Israel who sent him. YAH tells Moses to put his hand into his bosom, which he does. When he takes his hand out, it is LEPROUS (White) as snow. If Moses was already white-skinned, what would have been the miracle in turning the skin of his hand white?

Friday, March 27th 2015 at 10:35AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
The scriptures which will be used here as the main source, supported by history and archaeology proves that these Jews are not the physical descendants of the ancient Hebrew Israelite nation. In addition it reveals who the true descendants are. The answer may leave you in shock.

It is not my intention to be racist or bigotry but it is my purpose to share these thoughts according to The Holy Bible that this religion is our history and culture and not some white mans religion like some of us have been promoting on Black in America just today.

Saturday, March 28th 2015 at 12:18AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Israel is mentioned in scripture over 2,500 times. The scriptures contain the Hebrews' entire history. In fact, no other people on the face of the earth have such an extensive recorded history, not even the ancient Egyptians. Everything we need to know about the ancient Hebrews is contained in Scripture. So, let's examine these facts, information that to this day remains unknown or hidden to many "bible" readers.

Sunday, March 29th 2015 at 9:30PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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...Truly A Really Good Posting, Brother Deacon Ron Gray!

In The Spirit of Wisdom, Peace, and Love,

Greg.
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Monday, March 30th 2015 at 12:01AM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
Thank You Brother Doctor Gregory V. Boulware,

In the spirit of learning about who we are and who's we are as a people, I will humble myself and continue to serve.

With LOVE and RESPECT

Deacon Ron Gray

Thursday, April 2nd 2015 at 8:57AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
The Israelites are descendants of Noah son SHEM, through Abraham, he is the father of the Hebrew Israelite Nation. Abraham is the father of Isaac, Isaac is the father of Jacob, Jacob had twelve sons and these sons are the progenitors of the Israelite nation. The Twelve tribes of Israel are as follows:



REUBEN, GAD, SIMEON, ASHER, LEVI, NAPHILTI, JUDAH, ISSACHAR, ZEBULON, JOSEPH, DAN, ENJAMIN

Friday, April 3rd 2015 at 7:05AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Each one of Jacob's sons became a tribal nation, that made up the greater nation of Israel. EXAMPLE: Reuben's descendants became known as the tribe of Reuben. Judah's descendants became known as the tribe of Judah and so on and so forth. The nation of Israel are the descendants of Jacob who had his name changed to Israel by the Most High (Gen 28:32). That's the basics, lets move on to the meat of our lesson. We will begin with the story of Jacob's second youngest son Joseph, and his time in Egypt. Joseph was one of the twelve sons of Jacob (Yaaqob in Hebrew). Jacob sired Joseph in his old age, and he was clearly his favorite son. This caused Joseph's brothers to become jealous of him.

Sunday, May 31st 2015 at 11:32AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
I will not kick anyone out from learning about who's YAH's people are and I will point them in the right direct to show them who's you are Black American.


Sunday, September 13th 2015 at 11:10PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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"His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters.
And He had in His right hand seven stars; and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and His countenance was as the Sun shineith in His strength."
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...In and of The House of 'Judah!'
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Sunday, September 13th 2015 at 11:43PM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
I have seen this link before Brother Doctor Gregory Boulware, great timing. My only hope's is that our people will click on your link and read to get that understanding. So it will stop comments like this:

"YES, YES, and YES I am saying the White Jew! The Jewish race was always Caucasian. The Jewish Jesus was a Caucasian man. This is no such people as Black Hebrew Israelites. The word Black and Hebrew don’t go together because Hebrew people are Caucasian people and Black people are Negroid people. Hebrew and Israelite go together because both names are Caucasian. Black is all together something else. Black is Negroid."


Monday, September 14th 2015 at 12:25PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
HEY Harry,

Are these still your words: "YES, YES, and YES I am saying the White Jew! The Jewish race was always Caucasian. The Jewish Jesus was a Caucasian man. This is no such people as Black Hebrew Israelites. The word Black and Hebrew don’t go together because Hebrew people are Caucasian people and Black people are Negroid people. Hebrew and Israelite go together because both names are Caucasian. Black is all together something else. Black is Negroid."


Monday, September 14th 2015 at 7:30PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
This blog was true a few months ago and it is still good to review onw. Brothers and Sisters enjoy this read.


Friday, November 6th 2015 at 10:12AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
This blog is one of Black In America greatest TWO PART Series, Enjoy the read.

Thursday, November 11th 2021 at 9:56AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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I'm with you Brother Pastor 'Ron Gray!' the post that you've alluded too no longer exists on 'Black History.' That site has been dismantled and re-titled... It, the post, can be located here:

"I Am Black"
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In Peace, My Good Brother!

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