But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. "In these words there breaks forth from the dark cloud of wrath the mercy which gives security for the preservation and restoration of humanity. " (Keil.) God did not plan an absolute destruction of the entire human race, but only of those that deliberately persisted in their wickedness and would not accept the warning of His Spirit.
Verse Genesis 6:8. _NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD._] Why? Because he was, 1. _A just man_, איש צדיק ish tsaddik, a man who _gave to all their due_; for this is the ideal meaning of the ori...
- The Growth of Sin 3. דון _dı̂yn_ “be down, strive, subdue, judge.” בשׁגם _bāshagām_ “inasmuch, as also.” The rendering “in their error” requires the pointing בשׁגם _b__e__shāgām_, and the plural...
CHAPTER 6:1-8 The Increasing Corruption _ 1. The sons of God and the daughters of men (Genesis 6:1)_ 2. The warning of Jehovah (Genesis 6:3) 3. Increased wickedness (Genesis 6:4) 4. Judgment anno...
THE FLOOD. This section has been very skilfully composed from both J and P. There are numerous repetitions: Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 6:12 f.; Genesis 7:7 and...
J gives no explanation of the universal wickedness which caused God to repent man's creation, but the previous narrative has prepared for it. Probably, however, the story, which begins abruptly, has l...
_But Noah_ The sudden introduction of Noah's name implies that there had been some previous account, in J, describing the contrast of Noah's virtue with the sinfulness of his contemporaries. In the co...
Introduction to the story of the Flood from J: Jehovah sees the sinfulness of man and resolves to annihilate the race. Genesis 6:5 to Genesis 9:17. The Flood. (J and P.) Here follows the Hebrew narr...
NOAH FOUND GRACE— _Obtained favour,_ or mercy; and the reasons follow in the next verse, why he obtained such favour, and so much regard from God. He was a _just_ man, a justified person, fully accept...
PART TWENTY: THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD (Genesis 6:1-22) 1. _Universal Degeneracy_ (Genesis 6:1-8). And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were bor...
_BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD._ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Mankind was not to be annihilated; means were to be adopted for preserving a small remnant. Noah was sele...
THE FLOOD This narrative records the judgment of God upon the sinful forefathers of mankind, and His preservation of a righteous family, in whom the divine purposes for men might be carried out. The s...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 6 PEOPLE ARE VERY WICKED V1 At that time, men began to increase on the earth. Many daughters were born for them. V2 Then the sons of God saw that...
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 gre...
וְ נֹ֕חַ מָ֥צָא חֵ֖ן בְּ עֵינֵ֥י יְהוָֽה
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
THE WICKEDNESS OF MEN Genesis 5:25; Genesis 6:1 When a son was born to Lamech, he named him Noah, which means “ _Rest._ ”He thought that the boy would grow up to share and alleviate the strain of dai...
With the passing of the centuries, the degeneration of the individual and the family became that of society. There had been intermixture between the descendants of Cain and those of Seth, resulting in...
GOD SAVED NOAH The one righteous man on earth, Noah, and his family were saved by God (Genesis 6:8). Noah was "just" in that he lived in accord with God's will. He was "perfect," or upright, in that h...
But Noah (i) found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (i) God was merciful to him....
_Grace. Notwithstanding the general denunciation against all flesh, we see here that God will not confound the just with the guilty, in the same punishment. Noe pleased God, by observing the most perf...
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Proverbs 8:35. Is not Noah, in this instance, a type of the blessed Jesus? And is not the finding of Him the grace and favour here spoken of? John 1:43. A...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
_A LONELY MAN OF GRACE_ ‘Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.’ Genesis 6:8 I. THE FIRST FACT THAT STRIKES US IN THE STORY OF THE FLOOD IS THIS: that God, on account of the wickedness to which...
8._But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. _This is a Hebrew phrase, which signifies that God was propitious to him, and favored him. For so the Hebrews are accustomed to speak: — ‘If I have fou...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, AND 8. Finally we find power and force here below, the result, of the sons of God not keeping their first estate, of apostasy; and God executes judgment...
BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD. This man and his family were the only exception to the general apostasy; God always reserves some, in the worst of times, for himself; there is a remnant,...
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Ver. 8. _But Noah found grace._] Because in covenant with God; who of himself was a child of wrath, and saved by grace only, though "just and perfect in...
_Noah found grace_ That is, he obtained mercy and favour; for although he was by nature corrupt and sinful, he had been renewed in the spirit of his mind, and by repentance and a lively faith, had _ob...
1 The wickednesse of the world, which prouoked Gods wrath, and caused the Flood. 8 Noah findeth grace. 13 The order, forme, and end of the Arke. 1 AND it came to passe, when men began to multiply o...
FOURTH SECTION _The Universal Corruption in consequence of the mingling of the two lines. The anomism (or enormity) of sins before the flood. Predominant unbelief. Titanic pride. After the flood prev...
MAN'S DEGRADATION TO CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE It was not long before mankind multiplied greatly on earth, and the dreadful effects of sin multiplied with them. this is emphasized in the corrupt mixture...
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 ma...
i.e. Obtained mercy and favour; which is noted to show that Noah was so far guilty of the common corruption of human nature, that he needed God's grace and mercy to pardon and preserve him from the co...
Genesis 9:1-29 We have, now, arrived at a deeply-important and strongly-marked division of our book. Enoch has passed off the scene. His walk, as a stranger on earth, has terminated in his translation...
Genesis 6:8 Noah H5146 found H4672 (H8804) grace H2580 eyes H5869 LORD H3068 Genesis 19:19;...
Genesis 6:8 A ‘But Noah found favour in the eyes of Yahweh. These are the histories of Noah.' Among all who are committing such evil there is one who, with his close family, has remained pure. He al...
Gen. 6-7 A long period elapsed between the commencement of the building of the ark and the actual flood. During that period we notice: (1) the strength of Noah's faith. God has told him of a deluge of...
CONTENTS: Flood announced. Compromise of sons of God with daughters of men. CHARACTERS: Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth. CONCLUSION: The true believer can float in peace on the very waters by which the wic...
Genesis 6:2. _Sons of God._ Some understand this expression of Seth's sons, who intermarried with Cain's daughters, but assign no reason for their being called the _daughters of men._ Others understan...
_Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God_ NOAH I. NOAH, we read, “was a just man and perfect in his generations”; and why? 1. Because he was a faithful man--fait...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 6:2. Sons of God.]—That these were angels is a view which, it is well-known, has been held from ancient times, both by Jews and Christians. Of the latter class may be named Ju...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 6:1, GENESIS 6:2 AND IT CAME TO PASS. Literally, _it was_;_ _not in immediate sequence to the preceding chapter, but at some earlier point in the antediluvian period; perhaps about...
Chapter six. It came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took...
Genesis 19:19 Exodus 33:12 Psalms 84:11 Psalms 145:20 Proverbs 3:4
THE CORRUPTED EARTH Genesis 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we approach the story of the flood, which God sent as a judgment upon the earth, which was corrupt before God and filled with violence, it will...
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord — This vindicates God's justice in his displeasure against the world, and shews that he had examined the character of every person in it, before he pronoun...