Genesis 7:10-12
after seven days. or, on the seventh day.4waters.4,17-20; 6:17; Job 22:16; Mt 24:38,39; Lu 17:27 second month.The first month was Tisri, which answers to the latter end of September and first half of October; the second was Marchesvan, which answers to part of October and part of November. all.1:7; 6:17; 8:2; Job 28:4; 38:8-11; Ps 33:7; 74:15; Pr 8:28,29Isa 24:19; Jer 5:22; 51:16; Eze 26:19; Am 9:5,6; Mt 24:38; 1Th 5:3windows. or, flood-gates.1:7; 8:2; 2Ki 7:2,19; Ps 78:23,24; Mal 3:10 forty.4,17; Ex 24:18; De 9:9,18; 10:10; 1Ki 19:8; Mt 4:2Ezra 10:9
the ninth month.That is, some time in December, which is the coldest and most rainy time of the year in Palestine. Dr. Russel, in his account of the weather at Aleppo, which very much resembles that in Judea, says, that the natives reckon the severity of the winter, which they call {marbania,} to last but forty days, beginning from the 12th of December, and ending the 20th of January, and that this computation comes in fact very near the truth: and that the air during this time is excessively piercing, even to those that are just come from a cold climate. 7:8,9; Es 2:16trembling.1Sa 12:17,18; Jer 10:10,13great rain. Heb. showers.Ezra 10:13
the people.18-44; Mt 7:13,14we are many that have transgressed in this thing. or, wehave greatly offended in this thing.Proverbs 28:3
poor man.Mt 18:28-30which leaveth no food. Heb. without food.Ezekiel 13:11
there shall.It shall wash off this bad morter, sweep away the wall, and level it with the earth. In the East, where the walls are often built with unbaked bricks, desolations of this kind are frequently occasioned by tempestuous rains. 38:22; Job 27:21; Ps 11:6; 18:13,14; 32:6; Isa 25:4; 28:2,15-18Isa 29:6; 32:19; Na 1:3,7,8; Mt 7:25,27; Lu 6:48,49Ezekiel 13:13
a stormy.Le 26:28; Isa 30:30; Ps 107:25; 148:8; Jer 23:19; Jon 1:4and great.Ex 9:18-29; Ps 18:12,13; 105:32; 148:8; Isa 30:30; Hag 2:17; Re 8:7Re 11:19; 16:21Amos 9:6
buildeth.Ps 104:3,13stories. or, spheres. Heb. ascensions.{Mäâloth,} "upper chambers," which in eastern houses are the principal apartments. Perhaps there is a reference here to the various systems which God has created in illimitable space, transcending each other as the planets do in our system. troop. or, bundle.Ge 2:1{Aguddah} probably is the same as the Arabic {ijad,} "an arch, vault," and may here denote the vault of heaven, or atmosphere, which God "hath founded, or established, upon, or over, {âl,} the earth," and into which "he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth." calleth.5:8; Ge 7:11-19; Jer 5:22The Lord.4:13; Ex 3:14,15Matthew 7:25-27
the rain.Eze 13:11-16; Mal 3:3; Ac 14:22; 1Co 3:13-15; Jas 1:12; 1Pe 1:7for.16:18; Ps 92:13-15; 125:1,2; Eph 3:17; Col 2:7; 1Pe 1:5; 1Jo 2:19 doeth.1Sa 2:30; Pr 14:1; Jer 8:9; Lu 6:49; Jas 2:20 12:43-45; 13:19-22; Eze 13:10-16; 1Co 3:13; Heb 10:26-312Pe 2:20-22
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