Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Genesis 7:20
Fifteen cubits were sufficient for the destruction of the highest men, or other creatures, though placed upon the highest mountains.
Fifteen cubits were sufficient for the destruction of the highest men, or other creatures, though placed upon the highest mountains.
Verse Genesis 7:20. _FIFTEEN CUBITS UPWARD_] Should any person object to the _universality_ of the deluge because he may imagine there is not water sufficient to drown the whole globe in the manner he...
The prevalence of the waters. The forty days are now completed. And at the end of this period the ark had been afloat for a long time. It was drifted on the waters in the direction in which they were...
CHAPTER 7 Noah in the Ark and the Judgment by Water _ 1. Commanded to enter the ark (Genesis 7:1)_ 2. Noah's obedience (Genesis 7:5) 3. The judgment by water (Genesis 7:10) Noah is a type of the L...
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...
_Fifteen cubits_ P describes a depth of water of 15 cubits (22 feet) above the mountains. Why should 15 cubits be mentioned? Very possibly, because the height of the ark was 30 cubits (Genesis 6:15),...
FIFTEEN CUBITS UPWARD— That is, fifteen cubits, or twenty-two feet and a half, upward, or above the highest mountains. It is plain, as words can make it, from this and the foregoing and the subsequent...
PART TWENTY-ONE: THE WORLD UNDER THE FLOOD (Genesis 7:1-24) 1. _The Embarkation_ (Genesis 7:1-24). _The Biblical Account_ 1 And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for...
_FIFTEEN CUBITS UPWARD DID THE WATERS PREVAIL; AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE COVERED._ Fifteen cubits upward. Estimating the cubit at eighteen inches, then the waters were twenty-three feet above the peaks...
THE FLOOD (CONTINUED) 2. By sevens] RV 'seven and seven,' or seven pairs. The clean animals might be used for food, and would also be required for sacrifice. Observe that in Genesis 6:19 this distinct...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 7 GOD TELLS NOAH WHAT HE SHOULD DO V1 Then the *Lord said to Noah, ‘Go into the *ark and take all your family with you. I have seen you as a good...
FIFTEEN CUBITS UPWARD. — This apparently was the draught of the ark, computed after it had settled. in the region of Ararat. Fifteen cubits would be about twenty-two feet, and as the ark floated onwar...
חֲמֵ֨שׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה אַמָּה֙ מִ לְ מַ֔עְלָה גָּב
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
THE GREAT FLOOD Genesis 7:1 What anguish! They climbed the highest story of their towers, then to the hills, but the greedy waters followed them, till the last crag was covered, and all living things...
At last the work was completed, and the man who by faith had done that which was evidence of his folly in the eyes of the world entered the Ark, leaving behind him all his possessions. Then came the...
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...
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...
FIFTEEN CUBITS UPWARDS DID THE WATERS PREVAIL,.... Either to such an height above the earth, upwards from that, or from the high hills; for though the words do not necessarily imply that, yet it may b...
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. Ver. 20. _Fifteen cubits upward._] So, above any mountain. The Popish fable of Enoch, preserved alive in some high place...
_All the high hills, and the mountains were covered_ Therefore, there were hills and mountains before the flood. Deists, and other infidels, would persuade us that this was impossible, because of the...
1 Noah, with his familie, and the liuing creatures, enter into the Arke. 17 The beginning, increase, and continuance of the Flood. 1 AND the [NOTE: 2 Peter 2:5.] LORD saide vnto Noah, Come thou and...
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. To think of a partial flood, of a local deluge, with this plain account before us were madness; for if the Deluge, after r...
The Destruction Caused by the Flood...
SECOND SECTION _The Flood and the Judgment_ GENESIS 7:10-24 10And it came to pass after seven days [literally, seven of days] that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11In the sixth hundred...
PRESERVED THROUGH THE FLOOD Certainly so tremendous a project as the preparing of the ark would attract great attention by all the people, for in spite of Noah's preaching of righteousness (2 Peter 2:...
17-20 The flood was increasing forty days. The waters rose so high, that the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed more than twenty feet. There is no place on earth so high as to set men out...
Genesis 7:20 waters H4325 prevailed H1396 (H8804) fifteen H6240 H2568 cubits H520 upward H4605 mountains H2022 covered
‘And the waters grew deeper and bore up the ark and it was lifted up above the earth. And the waters prevailed and increased with great abundance on the earth, and the ark went up on the face of the w...
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...
Genesis 7:1. _And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark;_ Notice that the Lord did not say to Noah, «Go into the ark,» but «Come,» plainly implying that God was himself in...
CONTENTS: The flood comes. Noah and family preserved. CHARACTERS: Noah, his sons, and their wives. CONCLUSION: The blood of Christ keeps out the waters of judgment and makes the believers position «...
Genesis 7:2 ; GENESIS 7:8. _Clean beasts by sevens._ Male and female, reserving one for sacrifice. God's special care is over man and beast, and over the preservation of religion. Genesis 7:11. The sa...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 7:17 THE WATERS PREVAILED ON THE EARTH 150 DAYS (v. Genesis 7:24). The figure of 150 days, which includes the 40 days of rain mentioned in v....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 7:11. Great deep.] “The great abyss—the mighty roaring deep:” Heb. _tehôm_—same word as in Genesis 1:2; Proverbs 8:24, &c: Sept. and Vulg. “abyss.” BROKEN UP.]—Or, “burst open...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 7:11, GENESIS 7:12 IN THE SIX HUNDREDTH YEAR OF NOAH'S LIFE, IN THE SECOND MONTH. Not (1) of Noah's 600th year. (Knobel); but either (2) of the theocratic year, which
And so the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all of your house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Now of the clean beast thou shalt take by sevens, male with h...
and the mountains. Psalms 104:6 Jeremiah 3:23...
THE WATERS PREVAILED Genesis 7:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory we wish to bring before you statements concerning Noah and the ark which are found in the First Epistle of Peter. 1. WHILE THE AR...
The mountains were covered — Therefore there were mountains before the flood....