Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Genesis 7:12
Forty days and forty nights By proceeding in this gradual way, God, it is hoped, both awakened many to repentance, and gave them space for it.
Forty days and forty nights By proceeding in this gradual way, God, it is hoped, both awakened many to repentance, and gave them space for it.
Verse Genesis 7:12. _THE RAIN WAS UPON THE EARTH_] Dr. Lightfoot supposes that the rain began on the 18th day of the second month, or _Marcheshvan_, and that it ceased on the 28th of the third month,...
- XXV. The Flood The date is here given, at which the flood commenced and the entrance into the ark was completed. “In seven days.” On the seventh day from the command. “In the second month.” The prim...
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...
In this paragraph the dating assigns Genesis 7:6; Genesis 7:11; Genesis 7:24 to P; to the same document Genesis 7:13_ a_,...
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...
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 RAIN WAS UPON THE EARTH FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS._ And the rain was upon the earth. х_ GESHEM_ (H1653), differing from _ MAATAAR_ (H4306), rain in general, denotes unusual and continuous...
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...
וַֽ יְהִ֥י הַ גֶּ֖שֶׁם עַל ־הָ אָ֑רֶץ
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...
12._And the rain was upon the earth_. Although the Lord burst open the floodgates of the waters, yet he does not allow them to break forth in a moment, so as immediately to overwhelm the earth, but ca...
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 RAIN WAS UPON THE EARTH FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS,.... So long it was falling upon it, after the windows of heaven were opened. Aben Ezra would have it, that all things were in such confusio...
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Ver. 12. _Forty days and forty nights._] This was God's last warning-piece, shot off at these secure sinners, to arouse them, if haply 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...
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The exact fixing of the day on which the terrible punishment of God had its beginning serves to emphasize its importance for all time. It w...
The Flood Begins...
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:...
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...
God by this gradual proceeding both awakened to repentance, and gave them space for it....
Genesis 7:12 rain H1653 earth H776 forty H705 days H3117 forty H705 nights H3915 forty - Genesis 7:4,...
THE FLOOD (GENESIS 7:11) Genesis 7:11 ‘In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day, were all the fountains of the great deep br...
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...
_The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened_ THE DELUGE; OR, THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD UPON THE SIN OF MAN I. THAT THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE DIVINE...
ONE OF OUR BEST FRIENDS And the rain was upon the earth. Genesis 7:12. Have you ever taken any interest in rain? Perhaps you are not very fond of it. You think it is rather a spoil-sport. All it see...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 7:11 The exact dates given for the flood (see Genesis 8:4, Genesis 8:13) show that it was a real
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...
forty. Genesis 7:4 Genesis 7:17 Exodus 24:18 Deuteronomy 9:9 Deuterono
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...
It rained without intermission or abatement, forty days and forty nights — And that upon the whole earth at once....