Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested — upon the mountains of Ararat — Or, Armenia, whether it was directed, not by Noah's prudence, but the wise providence of God.
And the ark rested — upon the mountains of Ararat — Or, Armenia, whether it was directed, not by Noah's prudence, but the wise providence of God.
Verse Genesis 8:4. _THE MOUNTAINS OF ARARAT._] That Ararat was a mountain of _Armenia_ is almost universally agreed. What is commonly thought to be the Ararat of the Scriptures, has been visited by m...
- The Land Was Dried 1. שׁכך _shākak_ “stoop, assuage.” 3. חסר _chāsar_ “want, fail, be abated.” 4. אררט _'ărārāṭ_, “Ararat,” a land forming part of Armenia. It is mentioned in 2 Kings 19:37,
CHAPTER 8 Noah Remembered _ 1. Noah remembered (Genesis 8:1)_ 2. The ark resting (Genesis 8:4) 3. The raven sent forth (Genesis 8:6) 4. The sending forth of the dove ...
The mention of the rain (Genesis 8:2_ b_) comes from J, and since Genesis 8:3_ b_ with its dating belongs to P, Genesis 8:3_ a_ may be assigned to J. With Genesis
RESTED. Saturday, the Sabbath Day. Compare Genesis 7:4....
_the seventh month_, &c. The Flood had begun on the 17th day of the 2nd month (see Genesis 7:11): the highest point of the Flood is reached on the 17th day of the 7th month. Five months have elapsed....
THE ARK RESTED IN THE SEVENTH MONTH.— Of the year; that is, not of the flood, as appears from Genesis 8:13. as well as from Genesis 8:11 of the former chapter: on the tenth month of the year the tops...
PART TWENTY-TWO: THE WORLD AFTER THE FLOOD (Genesis 8:1-22; Genesis 9:1-29) 1. _The Subsidence of the Flood_ (Genesis 8:1-14). And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle
_AND THE ARK RESTED IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, ON THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, UPON THE MOUNTAINS OF ARARAT._ Seventh month - of the year (cf. Genesis 7:11) - not of the flood, which lasted only five...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 8 THE FLOOD ENDS V1 But God remembered Noah. And God remembered all the animals that were with Noah in the *ark. And God made a wind blow over th...
‘Mount Ararat’ means the mountains that are in the east part of the modern country Turkey. V6 After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the *ark, which he had made. V7 He sent out a raven (a bird). Th...
THE SEVENTH MONTH, ON THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH. — As the months had each thirty days (see Note on Genesis 8:14), this makes exactly 150 days (see Genesis 7:11). The seventh civil month would b...
וַ תָּ֤נַח הַ תֵּבָה֙ בַּ † חֹ֣דֶשׁ...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
NOAH LEAVES THE ARK Genesis 8:1 Traditions of the Flood are found in every country, from the tablets of Babylon to the rude carvings of the Aztecs, proving man's common origin. “God remembered Noah.”...
Upborne on the billows of judgment, the Ark rode securely, holding within it the nucleus of a new departure in human history. When the work of judgment was fully accomplished, the waters decreased, an...
A THANKSGIVING SACRIFICE The flood lasted one year and ten days (Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:14). Noah's first act on the renewed earth was to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving. It could be viewed as a sa...
And the ark rested in the (c) seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. (c) Part of September and part of October....
And the ark rested on the mountains of Armenia. The Hebrew word is Ararat, which also occurs in the 37th chap. of Isaias, and the 51st of Jeremias; for in these places our interpreter retained the Heb...
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 ARK OF SAFETY_ ‘And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.’ Genesis 8:4 The history of the Deluge is alleged in the New Testame...
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...
AND THE ARK RESTED IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, ON THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH,.... That is, five months after the flood began, and when the waters began to decrease; for this is not the seventh month o...
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. Ver. 4. _Mountains of Ararat._] On the tops of the Gordaean mountains (where Noah's ark res...
_The waters returned from off the earth continually_ Hebrews they were _going and returning;_ a gradual departure. The heat of the sun exhaled much, and perhaps the subterraneous caverns soaked in mor...
1 The waters asswage. 4 The Arke resteth on Ararat. 7 The rauen and the doue. 15 Noah, being commanded, 18 goeth forth of the Arke. 20 He buildeth an Altar, and offereth sacrifice, 21 which God...
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. The Lord so arranged matters that the ark settled down, came to a rest, on the mountain rang...
The Flood Subsides...
THIRD SECTION _The Ark, and the Saved and Renewed Humanity_ GENESIS 8:1-19 1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark; and God made a wind to p...
A RENEWED EARTH The five months of floating on a shoreless sea would seem interminable to Noah and his family, and it can be well imagined that they would feel that God had forgotten them. "But God re...
4-12 The ark rested upon a mountain, whither it was directed by the wise and gracious providence of God, that might rest the sooner. God has times and places of rest for his people after their tossin...
IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, from the beginning, not of the flood, but of the year, as appears by comparing GENESIS 7:11, and GENESIS 8:13, THE ARK RESTED upon one of the mountains of Ararat; by a frequent e...
Genesis 8:4 ark H8392 rested H5117 (H8799) seventh H7637 month H2320 seventeenth H6240 H7651 day H3117 month...
STAGES OF DELIVERANCE (GENESIS 8:4) Genesis 8:4 ‘On the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains (or hills) of Ararat, and the waters continued going...
SEVENTH MONTH That is, October. ARARAT Literally, holy ground, answering to the "heavenly" of (Ephesians 2:4) for the Church, and to the "new heavens and new earth" for Israel. (Isaiah 65:17); ...
Genesis 8:4 The history of the deluge is alleged in the New Testament as a type of the deep waters of sin, in which a lost world is perishing, and from which there is no escape but in that ark which G...
Genesis 8:1. _And God remembered Noah,_ Noah had been shut up in the ark for many a day, and at the right time God thought of him, practically thought of him, and came to visit him. Dear heart, you h...
CONTENTS: Waters receding, exit from the ark. Noah's altar. CHARACTERS: Noah and family. CONCLUSION: When judgment days are past, the believer will find himself safely landed in a better world. KEY...
Genesis 8:3. _The waters returned from off the earth continually._ The Hebrew, חלוךְ ושׁוב _cha-loveck ve-shou._ Montanus renders _eundo et redeundo,_ the going and coming of the waters. The word is u...
_The waters assuaged_ THE GRADUAL CESSATION OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION I. THAT IT IS MARKED BY A RICH MANIFESTATION OF DIVINE MERCY TO THOSE WHO HAVE SURVIVED THE TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION. 1. God’s remembra...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 8:2 In v. Genesis 8:2 God reverses the process started in Genesis 7:11. The waters both rose and fel
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 8:4. Ararat] “A region nearly in the middle of Armenia, between the Araxes and the lakes Van and Urumia (2 Kings 19:37, Isaiah 37:38: [‘land of Armenia,’ _lit._ ‘of Ararat’],...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 8:1 AND GOD. _Elohim, i.e. God in _his most universal relation to his creatures. The supposition of two different accounts or histories being intermingled in the narrative of the F...
The eighth chapter begins with the words, And God remembered Noah (Genesis 8:1), Let me tell you this, God never forgot him. It is important that we realize that in the Bible, there are terms that ar...
the ark. Genesis 7:17 seventh month. Ararat. 2 Kings 19:37 Isaiah 37:38 Jeremiah 51:27...
THE ASSUAGING OF THE WATERS Genesis 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. There is a striking verse in 2 Peter 3:6, which reads: "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the...