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 Word: Rest, Genesis 8:4.
Strong Verses: Genesis 8:1; Genesis 8:20.
Striking Facts: Superstition would have worshipped the ark as the means of salvation, but Noah looked to the God back of the means.
CHAPTER VIII _At the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters begin to_ _subside_, 1-3. _The ark rests on Mount Ararat_, 4. _On the first of the tenth month the tops of the hills appear_, 5....
- 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
GOD. Hebrew. _'Elohim =_ the Creator, because every living creature is included. Compare Genesis 7:16. REMEMBERED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ See App-9....
Genesis 8:1-14. The Diminution of the Waters 1 (P). _God remembered_ The same expression occurs in Genesis 19:29; Genesis 30:22. It is a form of anthropomorphism which is not infrequent in the O.T. an...
GOD REMEMBERED NOAH—AND MADE A WIND TO PASS, &C.— God had compassion upon Noah in his melancholy confinement: and this stupendous end of his providence being answered by the destruction of the iniquit...
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 GOD REMEMBERED NOAH, AND EVERY LIVING THING, AND ALL THE CATTLE THAT WAS WITH HIM IN THE ARK: AND GOD MADE A WIND TO PASS OVER THE EARTH, AND THE WATERS ASSWAGED;_ God remembered Noah. The word...
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...
‘God remembered Noah.’ This does not mean that God forgot Noah until this time. It means that at this time God acted to help Noah....
VIII. (1) GOD. — _Elohim._ On the Jehovistic theory, one would have expected Jehovah here. (See _Excursus._) EVERY LIVING THING. — See Note on Genesis 7:14. THE WATERS ASSWAGED. — Heb., _became stil...
וַ יִּזְכֹּ֤ר אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת ־נֹ֔חַ וְ אֵ֤ת
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 God (a) remembered Noah, and (b) every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; (a) Not that God forge...
Remembered; not as if God had ever forgotten Noe, but he now shews his remembrance of him by the effects. (Menochius) --- A wind, literally a spirit, which St. Ambrose and Theodoret understood of the...
CONTENTS The last Chapter concluded with the melancholy relation of the world destroyed, and the church brought within very narrow limits. This opens with an account of the renewals of mercy, in resto...
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 God remembered Noah_. Moses now descends more particularly to that other part of the subject, which shows, that Noah was not disappointed in his hope of the salvation divinely promised to him....
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 GOD REMEMBERED NOAH, AND EVERY LIVING THING, AND ALL THE CATTLE THAT [WAS] WITH HIM IN THE ARK,.... Not that God had forgotten Noah, for he does not, and cannot forget his creatures, properly spea...
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; Ver. 1. _And God remembered No...
_And God remembered Noah_, &c. This is an expression after the manner of men; for not any of his creatures, much less any of his people, are _forgotten of God._ But the whole race of mankind, except N...
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...
The Flood Subsides...
And God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged. During those long days when the low...
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...
1-3 The whole race of mankind, except Noah and his family, were now dead, so that God's remembering Noah, was the return of his mercy to mankind, of whom he would not make a full end. The demands of...
GENESIS CHAPTER 8 The waters abate, GENESIS 8:1. The ark rests on Mount Ararat, GENESIS 8:4. The day on which the tops of the mountians were seen, noted, GENESIS 8:5. Noah opens the window of the ark,...
Genesis 8:1 God H430 remembered H2142 (H8799) Noah H5146 thing H2416 animals H929 ark H8392 God H430 made...
THE CREATOR REMEMBERS HIS CREATURES (GENESIS 8:1) Genesis 8:1 ‘And God (Elohim the Creator) remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark, and God made a wi...
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...
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 8:1 GOD REMEMBERED NOAH. When the Bible says that God “remembers” someone or that he remembers his covenant with someone, it means he is about to act for that person’s welfare...
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...
God remembered. Genesis 19:29 Genesis 30:22 Exodus 2:24 1 Samuel 1:19...
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...
And God remembered Noah and every living thing — This is an expression after the manner of men, for not any of his creatures, much less any of his people are forgotten of God. But the whole race of ma...
Did God temporarily forget Noah? PROBLEM: The fact that the text says that “God remembered Noah” seems to imply that He temporarily forgot him. Yet the Bible declares that God knows all things (Psalms...