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Genesis 7:1
God chose Noah from among the people who were alive at that time. God chose Noah so that Noah could live a good life with God.
God chose Noah from among the people who were alive at that time. God chose Noah so that Noah could live a good life with God.
CHAPTER VII _God informs Noah that within seven days he shall send a rain upon_ _the earth, that shall continue for forty days and nights; and_ _therefore commands him to take his family, with the...
- The Ark Was Entered 2. טהור _ṭâhôr_ “clean, fit for food or sacrifice.” 4. יקוּם _y__e__qûm_ “standing thing; what grows up, whether animal or plant.” Compare קמה _qāmâh_ “stalk, or standing...
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...
From J, but touched by the redactor in Genesis 7:3_ a_. J's account of the command to build the ark and its fulfilment has been omitted in favour of P's. J recognises the distinction between clean and...
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...
LORD. Jehovah in His covenant-relation with Noah, and in connection with the seven clean beasts for sacrifice. See note on Genesis 6:12; Genesis 6:19. HOUSE. household. _Metonymy_ (of subject). App-6...
Genesis 7:1-5 The account, from J, of the command to enter the ark. The chief difference, between the J and P versions, lies in the number of the animals which Noah is to take into the ark. According...
_And the Lord_ The command of Jehovah. See Genesis 6:13, "And God said unto Noah." _and all thy house_ A more brief description of Noah's family than in Genesis 6:18. We should observe here the first...
DISCOURSE: 16 PRESERVATION OF NOAH Genesis 7:1._ And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou, and all thy house, into the ark._ THE Church of God has frequently been at so low an ebb, that its existence c...
GENESIS 7:1. _RIGHTEOUS IN THIS GENERATION_— See note on Genesis 6:8...
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...
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO NOAH, COME THOU AND ALL THY HOUSE INTO THE ARK; FOR THEE HAVE I SEEN RIGHTEOUS BEFORE ME IN THIS GENERATION._ And the Lord said unto Noah, Come ... The ark was finished; and N...
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...
VII. (1) COME THOU. — The task of building the ark is over, and after a week, to be spent in collecting animals and birds, Noah is to take up his abode in it. Many commentators suppose that 120 years...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ לְ נֹ֔חַ בֹּֽא ־אַתָּ֥ה
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...
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen (a) righteous before me in this generation. (a) In respect to the rest of the world, and because he had a d...
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Contents This is a very interesting Chapter, in that it enables us...
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...
1._And the Lord said unto Noah_. I have no doubt that Noah was confirmed, as he certainly needed to be, by oracles frequently repeated. He had already sustained, during one hundred years, the greatest...
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 LORD SAID UNTO NOAH,.... After Noah had built the ark, and got all things ready as were commanded him; and when it was but seven days ere the flood would begin: COME THOU AND ALL THY HOUSE IN...
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Ver. 1. _For thee have I seen righteous before me._] Not only befor...
Gen. 7:1-7. The company in _Noah's Ark _ was upon many accounts a type of the church of Christ. The ark did literally contain in it the church of God, for all flesh had corrupted their way before God,...
_Come thou, and all thy house, into the ark_ His family consisted only of eight persons, 1 Peter 3:20, namely, Noah and his three sons, and their four wives, Genesis 6:18. By this it appears that each...
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...
The Order to Embark...
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation. Here is the solemn command of Jehovah with which He announced the co...
See Genesis 6:8 ff for the passage quote with footnotes. Genesis 7:1 And the Lord said unto Noah, come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation....
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:...
1-12 The call to Noah is very kind, like that of a tender father to his children to come in-doors when he sees night or a storm coming. Noah did not go into the ark till God bade him, though he knew...
GENESIS CHAPTER 7 God commands Noah to enter into the ark; the reason of it, GENESIS 7:1. Directs him as to the manner and time, GENESIS 7:2. Noah's obedience in all things, GENESIS 7:5. His age,...
Genesis 7:1 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Noah H5146 Come H935 (H8798) ark H8392 household H1004 seen...
THE DAY ARRIVES (GENESIS 7:1) Genesis 7:1 ‘And Yahweh said to Noah, “Come, both you and all your household into the ark, for I have seen you as righteous before me in this generation”.' We now see a...
“THE HISTORIES OF THE SONS OF NOAH” - THE FLOOD (GENESIS 6:9 B - GENESIS 10:1 A) - TABLET IV It has been common practise among a large number of scholars to seek to split the flood narrative into diff...
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 I. The first fact that strikes us in the story of the flood is this: that God, on account of the wickedness to which the world had grown, had made up His mind to sweep it away, once and f...
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...
_And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark_ THE ARK COMPLETED; OR, THE TERMINATION OF DEFINITE MORAL SERVICE I. THE TERMINATION OF AS ARDUOUS TASK. 1. This termination w...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 7:1 On the distinction between CLEAN and NOT CLEAN creatures, see Leviticus 11:1 and...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 7:1. Righteous.] The radical notion of this important word in Hebrew is, by Gesenius and Davies, affirmed to be that of “straightness,” the quality of going evenly and directl...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 7:1 AND THE LORD, _Jehovah_, since Elohim now appears as the covenant God, though this change in the Divine name is commonly regarded by modern critics as betraying the hand of a J...
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...
A.M. 1656. B.C. 2348. Come. Genesis 7:7 Genesis 7:13 Job 5:19 Psalms 91:1 Prover
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...
Here is a gracious invitation of Noah and his family into a place of safety, now the flood of waters was coming. For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation — Those are righteous indee...