King James Version
Genesis 6
22 verses with commentary
The Wickedness of Mankind
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
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<strong>And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born un...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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**VI.**
(1) **When men (the adam)** **began to multiply.**—The multiplication of the race of Adam was probably comparatively slow, because of the great age to which each patriarch attained before his first-born was brought into the world: though, as the name given is not necessarily that of the eldest, but of the son who enjoyed the birthright, it does not follow that in every case the one named w...
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Chapter 6
Chapter Outline
The wickedness of the world which provoked God's wrath.(1-7)
Noah finds grace.(8-11)
Noah warned of the flood, The directions respecting the ark.(12-21)
Noah's faith and obedience.(22)
**Verses 1-7**
The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that w...
Read full commentary →That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
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<strong>That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all w...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(2) **The sons of God. . . . —**The literal translation of this verse is, *And the sons of the Elohim saw the daughters of the adam that they were good *(beautiful); *and they took to them wives whomsoever they chose. *Of the sons of the Elohim there are three principal interpretations: the first, that of the Targums and the chief Jewish expositors, that they were the nobles, and men of high rank;...
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**26. Lamech--**a different person from the one mentioned in the preceding chapter [Ge 4:18]. Like his namesake, however, he also spoke in numbers on occasion of the birth of Noah--that is, "rest" or "comfort" [Ge 5:29, Margin]. "The allusion is, undoubtedly, to the penal consequences of the fall in earthly toils and sufferings, and to the hope of a Deliverer, excited by the promise made to Eve. T...
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Chapter 6
Chapter Outline
The wickedness of the world which provoked God's wrath.(1-7)
Noah finds grace.(8-11)
Noah warned of the flood, The directions respecting the ark.(12-21)
Noah's faith and obedience.(22)
**Verses 1-7**
The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that w...
Read full commentary →And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
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<strong>And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his da...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(3) **And the Lord said.**—As the Sethites are now the fallen race, it is their covenant Jehovah who determines to reduce the extreme duration of human life to that which, under the most favourable sanitary influences, might still be its normal length.
**My spirit shall not always strive with man.**—The meaning of this much-contested clause is really settled by the main purpose and context of the ...
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Chapter 6
Chapter Outline
The wickedness of the world which provoked God's wrath.(1-7)
Noah finds grace.(8-11)
Noah warned of the flood, The directions respecting the ark.(12-21)
Noah's faith and obedience.(22)
**Verses 1-7**
The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that w...
Read full commentary →There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
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<strong>There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(4) **Giants.**—Heb., *Nephilim, *mentioned again in Numbers 13:33, and apparently a race of great physical strength and stature. Nothing is more probable than that, at a time when men lived for centuries, human vigour should also show itself in producing not merely individuals, but a race of more than ordinary height. They were apparently of the Cainite stock, and the text carefully distinguishes...
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Chapter 6
Chapter Outline
The wickedness of the world which provoked God's wrath.(1-7)
Noah finds grace.(8-11)
Noah warned of the flood, The directions respecting the ark.(12-21)
Noah's faith and obedience.(22)
**Verses 1-7**
The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that w...
Read full commentary →And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. every: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires continually: Heb. every day
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<strong>And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the tho...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(5) **And God saw.**—Really, *And Jehovah saw.*
**Imagination.**—More exactly, *form, shape. *Thus every idea or embodied thought, which presented itself to the mind through the working of the heart—that is, the whole inner nature of man—“was only evil continually”—Heb., *all the day, *from morning to night, without reproof of conscience or fear of the Divine justice. A more forcible picture of co...
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Chapter 6
Chapter Outline
The wickedness of the world which provoked God's wrath.(1-7)
Noah finds grace.(8-11)
Noah warned of the flood, The directions respecting the ark.(12-21)
Noah's faith and obedience.(22)
**Verses 1-7**
The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that w...
Read full commentary →And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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<strong>And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart....</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, God's ju...
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(6) **And it repented the Lord.**—If we begin with the omniscience and omnipotence of God as our postulates, everything upon earth must be predestined and immutably fore-ordained. If we start with man’s free will, everything will depend upon human choice and action. Both these sides must be true, though our mental powers are too limited to combine them. In Holy Scripture the latter view is kept mo...
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Chapter 6
Chapter Outline
The wickedness of the world which provoked God's wrath.(1-7)
Noah finds grace.(8-11)
Noah warned of the flood, The directions respecting the ark.(12-21)
Noah's faith and obedience.(22)
**Verses 1-7**
The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that w...
Read full commentary →And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. both: Heb. from man unto beast
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<strong>And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and ...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(7) **I will destroy.**—Heb., *delete, rub out.*
F**rom the face of the earth.**—Heb., *the *adâmâh*, *the tilled ground which man had subdued and cultivated.
**Both man, and beast.**—Heb., *from man unto cattle, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the air, *The animal world was to share in this destruction, because its fate is bound up with that of man (Romans 8:19-22); but the idea of the *tot...
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Chapter 6
Chapter Outline
The wickedness of the world which provoked God's wrath.(1-7)
Noah finds grace.(8-11)
Noah warned of the flood, The directions respecting the ark.(12-21)
Noah's faith and obedience.(22)
**Verses 1-7**
The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that w...
Read full commentary →But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
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<strong>But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD....</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, God's judgment, and the preservation of a righteous rem...
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(8) **But Noah found grace.**—This is the first place where grace is mentioned in the Bible, and with these words ends the *Tôldôth Adam. *It has traced man from his creation until his wickedness was so great that the Divine justice demanded his punishment. But it concludes with words of hope. Jehovah’s purpose was not extermination, but regeneration; and with Noah a higher and better order of thi...
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**32. Noah was five hundred years old: and ... begat--**That he and the other patriarchs were advanced in life before children were born to them is a difficulty accounted for probably from the circumstance that Moses does not here record their first-born sons, but only the succession from Adam through Seth to Abraham.
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**Verses 8-11**
Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men; they hated and persecuted him, because both by his life and preaching he condemned the world: but he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and this made him more truly honourable than the men of renown. Let this be our chief desire, let us labour that we may be accepted of him. When the rest of the world was wicked, Noah kept his inte...
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These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. perfect: or, upright
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<strong>These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walk...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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**THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH** (Genesis 6:9; Genesis 9:28).
(9) **Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations.**—“Just” is, literally, *righteous, *one whose actions were sufficiently upright to exempt him from the punishment inflicted upon the rest of mankind. “Perfect” means *sound, healthy, *and conveys no idea of sinlessness. It answers to the Latin *integer, *whence our word integrity, an...
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**Verses 8-11**
Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men; they hated and persecuted him, because both by his life and preaching he condemned the world: but he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and this made him more truly honourable than the men of renown. Let this be our chief desire, let us labour that we may be accepted of him. When the rest of the world was wicked, Noah kept his inte...
Read full commentary →And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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<strong>And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth....</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, God's judgment, and the preservation of a righteou...
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**Verses 8-11**
Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men; they hated and persecuted him, because both by his life and preaching he condemned the world: but he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and this made him more truly honourable than the men of renown. Let this be our chief desire, let us labour that we may be accepted of him. When the rest of the world was wicked, Noah kept his inte...
Read full commentary →The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
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<strong>The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence....</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, God's judgment, and th...
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(11) **The earth.**—This is the larger word, and it occurs no less than six times in these three verses, thus indicating a more widespread calamity than if adâmâh only had been used, as in Genesis 6:7. But the earth that “was corrupt before God” was not the whole material globe, but that part which man, notably the *gibborim *of Genesis 6:4, had “filled with violence.” Whithersoever man’s violence...
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CHAPTER 6 Ge 6:1-22. Wickedness of the World.
**2. the sons of God saw the daughters of men--**By the former is meant the family of Seth, who were professedly religious; by the latter, the descendants of apostate Cain. Mixed marriages between parties of opposite principles and practice were necessarily sources of extensive corruption. The women, religious themselves, would as wives and mothers ex...
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**Verses 8-11**
Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men; they hated and persecuted him, because both by his life and preaching he condemned the world: but he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and this made him more truly honourable than the men of renown. Let this be our chief desire, let us labour that we may be accepted of him. When the rest of the world was wicked, Noah kept his inte...
Read full commentary →And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
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<strong>And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(12) **All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.**—These material things were incapable alike of moral good or evil, but man had made them the instruments of working his carnal will, and because of the associations connected with them they must be effaced, or *rubbed out. *(See Note on Genesis 6:7.)
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**3. flesh--**utterly, hopelessly debased.
**And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive--**Christ, as God, had by His Spirit inspiring Enoch, Noah, and perhaps other prophets (1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5; Jude 14), preached repentance to the antediluvians; but they were incorrigible.
**yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years--**It is probable that the corruption of the world, which h...
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**Verses 12-21**
God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he ch...
Read full commentary →And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. with the earth: or, from the earth
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<strong>And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violenc...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(13) **The end of all flesh is come before me.**—A metaphor taken from the customs of earthly kings. Before an order is executed the decree is presented to the sovereign, that it may finally be examined, and if approved, receive the sign manual, upon which it becomes law.
**I will destroy them.**—Not the verb used in Genesis 6:7, but that translated *had corrupted *in Genesis 6:12. It means “to br...
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**4. giants--**The term in Hebrew implies not so much the idea of great stature as of reckless ferocity, impious and daring characters, who spread devastation and carnage far and wide.
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**Verses 12-21**
God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he ch...
Read full commentary →Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. rooms: Heb. nests
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<strong>Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and wit...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(14) **Make thee an ark.**—*Têbâh, *a word so archaic that scholars neither know its derivation, nor even to what language it belongs. It is certain, however, that it was an oblong box, not capable of sailing, but intended merely to float. In the Chaldean account of the deluge, the language everywhere is that of a maritime people: the history in Genesis is as plainly the work of a people living in...
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**5-6. God saw it ... repented ... grieved--**God cannot change (Mal 3:6; Jas 1:17); but, by language suited to our nature and experience, He is described as about to alter His visible procedure towards mankind--from being merciful and long-suffering, He was about to show Himself a God of judgment; and, as that impious race had filled up the measure of their iniquities, He was about to introduce a...
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**Verses 12-21**
God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he ch...
Read full commentary →And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
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<strong>And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cu...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(15) **Cubits.**—The cubit is the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. As, further, it was regarded as one-fourth of a man’s height, we may safely compute it at eighteen inches, except where the sacred or longer cubit is expressly mentioned. Thus the ark was 450 feet long, 75 broad, and 45 in depth. The *Great Eastern *is much larger, being: 680 feet in length. However...
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**5-6. God saw it ... repented ... grieved--**God cannot change (Mal 3:6; Jas 1:17); but, by language suited to our nature and experience, He is described as about to alter His visible procedure towards mankind--from being merciful and long-suffering, He was about to show Himself a God of judgment; and, as that impious race had filled up the measure of their iniquities, He was about to introduce a...
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**Verses 12-21**
God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he ch...
Read full commentary →A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
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<strong>A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(16) **A window.**—Not the word so rendered in Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:2, which means a *lattice; *nor that in. Genesis 8:6, which means an *aperture; *but “zohar,” *light, brightness. *In the dual, *double-light, *it is the usual word for “midday,” but it does not occur elsewhere in the singular. It was evidently a means, not merely of lighting the ark, but also of ventilating it; for as it was t...
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**Verses 12-21**
God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he ch...
Read full commentary →And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
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<strong>And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is ...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(17) **A flood.**—*Mabbul, *another archaic word. It is used only of the deluge, except in Psalm 29:10, where, however, there is an evident allusion to the flood of Noah.
**Every thing that is in the earth shall die.**—That this by no means involves the theory of a universal deluge has been shown with admirable cogency by Professor Tayler Lewis in “Lange’s Commentary.” His view is that the writer ...
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**8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord--**favor. What an awful state of things when only one man or one family of piety and virtue was now existing among the professed sons of God!
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**Verses 12-21**
God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he ch...
Read full commentary →But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
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<strong>But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, an...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(18) **My covenant.**—There had been no covenant with Adam or with the Sethites, but in the higher state of things which began with Noah, man was to hold a more exactly defined relation to God; and though they had begun to attach the notion of Deity to the name Jehovah in the days of Enos (Genesis 4:26), yet it was not till the time of Moses that it became the distinct title of God in covenant wit...
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**9. Noah ... just ... and perfect--**not absolutely; for since the fall of Adam no man has been free from sin except Jesus Christ. But as living by faith he was just (Ga 3:2; He 11:7) and perfect--that is, sincere in his desire to do God's will.
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**Verses 12-21**
God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he ch...
Read full commentary →And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
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<strong>And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep the...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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(19-22) **of every living thing of all flesh, two . . . —**The vast size of the ark and the wide terms used of the animals to be collected into it, make it evident that Noah was to save not merely his domestic cattle, but many wild species of beasts, birds, and creeping things. But the terms are conditioned by the usual rules for the interpretation of the language of Holy Scripture, and by the int...
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**Verses 12-21**
God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he ch...
Read full commentary →Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
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<strong>Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth afte...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
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**11. the earth was filled with violence--**In the absence of any well-regulated government it is easy to imagine what evils would arise. Men did what was right in their own eyes, and, having no fear of God, destruction and misery were in their ways.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 12-21**
God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he ch...
Read full commentary →And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
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<strong>And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be...</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, ...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 12-21**
God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he ch...
Read full commentary →Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
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KJV Study Commentary
<strong>Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he....</strong> This passage belongs to the primeval history section (Genesis 1-11) which establishes universal truths about God, humanity, sin, and divine purposes before focusing on Abraham and Israel. These chapters answer fundamental questions about human origins, the spread of wickedness, God's judgment, and the preservati...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**13. And God said unto Noah--**How startling must have been the announcement of the threatened destruction! There was no outward indication of it. The course of nature and experience seemed against the probability of its occurrence. The public opinion of mankind would ridicule it. The whole world would be ranged against him. Yet, persuaded the communication was from God, through faith (He 11:7), ...
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**Verse 22**
Noah's faith triumphed over all corrupt reasonings. To rear so large a building, such a one as he never saw, and to provide food for the living creatures, would require from him a great deal of care, and labour, and expense. His neighbours would laugh at him. But all such objections, Noah, by faith, got over; his obedience was ready and resolute. Having begun to build, he did not ...
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