Gen 6-8, Job 22:15-16, Mat 24:37-39, Luk 17:26-27, Heb 11:7 | TSK | STEP | The wickedness of the world, which provoked God's wrath, and caused the flood. Noah finds grace. His generations, etc. The order, form, dimensions, and end of the ark. A.M. 1556. B.C. 2448. to multiply.

7:1,7,13; Isa 26:20; Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5 The cubit being nearly 22 inches, and the ark being 300 cubits in length, 50 in breadth, and 30 in height, (ver. 15,) its size was equal to 547 feet long, 91 feet broad, and 54 feet high; and it is computed to had been 81,062 tons burthen. These dimensions were sufficient to contain all the persons and animals in it, and food for more than a year.

two.

7:2,3,8,9,15,16; 8:17; Ps 36:6

fowls.

1:20-24; Ac 10:11,12

two.

1:28; 2:19; 7:8-16; Joh 5:40

1:29,30; Job 38:41; 40:20; Ps 35:6; 104:27,28; 136:25; 145:16; 147:9

Mt 6:26

7:5,9,16; 17:23; Ex 40:16,19,21,23,25,27,32; De 12:32; Mt 7:24-27

Joh 2:5; 15:14; Heb 11:7,8; 1Jo 5:3,4

Genesis 7

1 Noah, with his family, and the living creatures, enter the ark, and the flood begins.

17 The increase and continuance of the flood for forty days.

21 All flesh is destroyed by it.

24 Its duration.

A.M. 1656. B.C. 2348. Come.

7,13; Job 5:19-24; Ps 91:1-10; Pr 14:26; 18:10; Isa 26:20,21

Eze 9:4-6; Zep 2:3; Mt 24:37-39; Lu 17:26; Ac 2:39; Heb 11:7

1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5

thee.

6:9; Ps 33:18,19; Pr 10:6,7,9; 11:4-8; Isa 3:10,11; Php 2:15,16

2Pe 2:5-9

every clean.

8; 6:19-21; 8:20; Le 11:1-47; De 14:1-21; Ac 10:11-15

sevens. Heb. seven, seven. not.

Le 10:10; Eze 44:23

For.

10; 2:5; 6:3; 8:10,12; 29:27,28; Job 28:25; 36:27-32; 37:11,12; Am 4:7

forty days.

12,17

and every.

21-23; 6:17

destroy. Heb. blot out.

21,23; 6:7,13,17; Ex 32:32,33; Job 22:16; Ps 69:28; Re 3:5

all that.

6:22; Ex 39:32,42,43; 40:16; Ps 119:6; Mt 3:15; Lu 8:21; Joh 2:5

Joh 8:28,29; 13:17; Php 2:8; Heb 5:8

5:32; 8:13

1,13-15; 6:18; Pr 22:3; Mt 24:38; Lu 17:27; Heb 6:18; 11:7; 1Pe 3:20

2Pe 2:5

16; 2:19; Isa 11:6-9; 65:25; Jer 8:7; Ac 10:11,12; Ga 3:28; Col 3:11

after seven days. or, on the seventh day.

waters.

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 8:28,29

Isa 24:19; Jer 5:22; 51:16; Eze 26:19; Am 9:5,6; Mt 24:38; 1Th 5:3

windows. 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 4:2

day.

1,7-9; 6:18; Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5

and Shem.

5:32; 6:10; 9:18,19; 10:1,2,6,21; 1Ch 1:4-28

They.

2,3,8,9

sort. Heb. wing.

6:20; Isa 11:6

as.

2,3

the.

2Ki 4:4,5; De 33:27; Ps 46:2; 91:1-10; Pr 3:23; Mt 25:10; Lu 13:25

Joh 10:27-30; 1Pe 1:5

4,12

waters prevailed.

Ex 14:28; Job 22:16; Ps 69:15

ark.

Ps 104:26

and all the high hills.At the present day every mountain where search has been made, conspire in one uniform, universal proof that they all had the sea spread over their highest summits; shells, skeletons of fish, etc., having been found there.

Job 12:15; Ps 46:2,3; 104:6-9; Jer 3:23; 2Pe 3:6

and the mountains.

Ps 104:6; Jer 3:23

4; 6:6,7,13,17; Job 22:15-17; Isa 24:6,19; Jer 4:22-27; 12:3,4

Ho 4:3; Joe 1:17-20; 2:3; Zep 1:3; Mt 24:39; Lu 17:27; Ro 8:20,22

2Pe 2:5

breath of life. Heb. breath of the spirit of life.

2:7; 6:17

every living substance.The most incontestable evidence has been afforded of the universality of this fact: the moose deer, a native of America, has been found buried in Ireland; elephants, native of Asia and Africa, in the midst of England; crocodiles, natives of the Nile, in the heart of Germany; and shell fish, never known in any but the American seas, with the entire skeletons of whales, in the most inland counties of England.

21,22; Job 22:15-17; Isa 24:1-8; Mt 24:37-39; Lu 17:26,27; 1Pe 3:20

2Pe 2:5

and Noah.

Ex 14:28-30; Job 5:19; Ps 91:1,9,10; Pr 11:4; Eze 14:14-20

Mal 3:17,18; Mt 25:46; Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5,9; 3:6

8:3,4

compare with ver. 11 of this chapter.The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, and the raining forty days and nights, had raised the waters fifteen cubits, or twenty-two feet and a half, above the highest mountain; after which forty days, it appears to have continued at this height one hundred and fifty days more.

Genesis 8

1 God remembers Noah, and assuages the waters.

4 The ark rests on Ararat.

6 Noah sends forth a raven and then a dove.

13 Noah, being commanded, goes forth from the ark.

20 He builds an altar, and offers sacrifice, which God accepts, and promises to curse the earth no more.

God remembered.

19:29; 30:22; Ex 2:24; 1Sa 1:19; Ne 13:14,22,29,31; Job 14:13

Ps 106:4; 132:1; 136:23; 137:7; Am 8:7; Hab 3:2; Re 16:19; 18:5

the cattle.

Nu 22:32; Ps 36:6; Jon 4:11; Ro 8:20-22

a wind.

Ex 14:21; Ps 104:7-9; Pr 25:23

fountains.

7:11; Pr 8:28; Jon 2:3

the rain.

Job 37:11-13; 38:37; Mt 8:9,26,27

continually. Heb. in going and returning. hundred.

7:11,24

the ark.

7:17-19

seventh month.That is, of the year, not of the deluge.

Ararat.Ararat is generally understood to be Armenia, as it is rendered elsewhere, in which there is a great chain of mountains, like the Alps or the Pyrenees, upon the highest part of which, called by some, "The Finger Mountain," the ark is supposed to have rested.

2Ki 19:37; Isa 37:38; Jer 51:27

decreased continually. Heb. were in going and decreasing.the tenth.

7:11

opened the window.

6:16; Da 6:10

a raven.

Le 11:15; 1Ki 17:4,6; Job 38:41; Ps 147:9

went forth to and fro. Heb. in going forth and returning.

a dove.

10-12; So 1:15; 2:11,12,14; Mt 10:16

found.

De 28:65; Eze 7:16; Mt 11:28; Joh 16:33

and she.

Ps 116:7; Isa 60:8

pulled her. Heb. caused her to come.

stayed.

Ps 40:1; Isa 8:17; 26:8; Ro 8:25

seven.

12; 7:4,10

an olive.

Ne 8:15; Zec 4:12-14; Ro 10:15

And he.

Ps 27:14; 130:5,6; Isa 8:17; 25:9; 26:8; 30:18; Hab 2:3; Jas 5:7,8

seven.

10; 2:2,3

A.M. 1657. B.C. 2347. six.

7:11

7:11,13,14From this, it appears, that Noah was in the ark a complete solar year, or 365 days; for he entered it on the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the 600th year of his life, and continued in it till the 27th day of the 2nd month, in the 601st year of his life, as we see above.

7:1,7,13; Jos 3:17; 4:10,16-18; Ps 91:11; 121:8; Da 9:25,26

Zec 9:11; Ac 16:27,28,37-39

Bring.

7:14,15

breed.

1:22; 9:1,7; Ps 107:38; 144:13,14; Jer 31:27,28

Ps 121:8

kinds. Heb. families.

builded.

4:4; 12:7,8; 13:4; 22:9; 26:25; 33:20; 35:1,7; Ex 20:24,25; 24:4-8

Ro 12:1; Heb 13:10,15,16; 1Pe 2:5,9

clean beast.

7:2; Le 11:1-47

burnt.

Le 1:1-17

smelled.

Le 1:9,13,17; 26:31; So 4:10,11; Isa 65:6; Eze 20:41; Am 5:21,22

2Co 2:15; Eph 5:2; Php 4:18

sweet savour. Heb. savour of rest. curse.

3:17; 4:12; 5:29; 6:17

for. or, though. the imagination.

6:5; Job 14:4; 15:14-16; Ps 51:5; 58:3; Pr 20:9; Ec 7:20; Isa 47:12

Isa 47:15; 48:8; 53:6; Jer 8:6; 17:9; 18:12; Mt 15:19; Joh 3:6

Ro 1:21; 3:23; 8:7,8; Eph 2:1-3; Jas 1:14,15; 4:1,2; 1Jo 5:19

neither.

9:11-15; Isa 54:9,10

as I.

2Pe 3:6,7

While the earth remaineth. Heb. as yet all the days of theearth.

Isa 54:8

seed-time.Most of the European nations divide the year into four distinct parts, called quarters or seasons; but there are six divisions in the text, which obtained in Palestine among the Hebrews, and exist among the Arabs to the present day. According to this gracious promise, the heavenly bodies have preserved their courses, the seasons their successions, and the earth its increase for the use of man.

45:6; Ex 34:21; Ps 74:16,17; So 2:11,12; Isa 54:9; Jer 5:24; Jas 5:7

day.

Jer 31:35; 33:20-26