Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Genesis 9:21
And he drank of the wine, and was drunk It is highly probable he did not know the effect of it before. And he was uncovered in his tent Made naked to his shame.
And he drank of the wine, and was drunk It is highly probable he did not know the effect of it before. And he was uncovered in his tent Made naked to his shame.
Verse Genesis 9:21. _HE DRANK OF THE WINE, C._] It is very probable that this was the first time the wine was cultivated and it is as probable that the strength or intoxicating power of the expressed...
- XXX. The Prophecy of Noah 18. כנען _k__e__na‛an_, “Kena‘an, bowed down.” 19. נפץ _nāpats_, “break, scatter, spread.” פוּץ _pûts_, “break, scatter, flow.” 20. כרם...
CHAPTER 9 The Earth Replenished _ 1. The divine commission (Genesis 9:1)_ 2. The covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:8) 3. The token of the covenant (Genesis 9:12) 4. The family of Noah ...
THE DRUNKENNESS OF NOAH; HIS CURSE AND HIS BLESSINGS. In this section Genesis 9:28 f. belongs to P. If Genesis 5:32; Genesis 7:6; Genesis 9:28 f. are read to
WINE: first occurance. Hebrew. _yayin._ See App-27. [CONVERSION NOTE:SOME VERSIONS OF THE COMPANION BIBLE TEXT ON THE INTERNET HAVE THE FOLLOWING COMMENT FOR THIS VERSE BUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK (THAT. H...
_and he drank_ The representation is that of the man who first made wine out of grapes, and drinking of it in ignorance was overcome by its potency. No blame is attached to him....
Noah, as the Vine-dresser, and his three Sons. (J.) In this section the narrative, which begins at Genesis 9:20, is introduced by the two connecting Genesis 9:18-19, which either conclude J's account...
HE DRANK OF THE WINE, AND WAS DRUNKEN— Became inebriated, not knowing, perhaps, the nature and strength of the liquor; or being, through age, incapable of bearing it; and Moses is so faithful an histo...
7. _Noah's Last Days_ (Genesis 9:18-28.) 18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These three were the sons of Noah:...
_AND HE DRANK OF THE WINE, AND WAS DRUNKEN; AND HE WAS UNCOVERED WITHIN HIS TENT._ And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. This unhappy incident has been viewed in two ways: (1) As the result of i...
Noah's intoxication was not due to deliberate excess, but was his practical discovery of the properties of wine. The story therefore contains nothing inconsistent with the character already ascribed t...
THE DIVINE BLESSING AND COVENANT. NOAH AND THE VINE. THE CURSE OF CANAAN 1-7. The primeval benediction of man (Genesis 1:28) is now repeated and enlarged. Animal food is allowed (cp. Genesis 1:29), bu...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 9 GOD MAKES AN AGREEMENT WITH NOAH V1 And God promised good things to Noah and to his sons. He said to them, ‘Have large families. Increase so th...
HE WAS UNCOVERED is, literally, _he uncovered himself._ It was no accident, but a wilful breach of modesty....
NOAH BEGAN TO BE AN HUSBANDMAN. — Rather, _Noah, being a husbandman_ (Heb., _a man of the adâmâh_)_, began to plant a vineyard._ Noah had always been a husbandman: it was the cultivation of the vine,...
וַ יֵּ֥שְׁתְּ מִן ־הַ יַּ֖יִן וַ יִּשְׁכָּ֑ר
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
NOAH'S FALL Genesis 9:20 NOAH in the ark was in a position of present safety but of much anxiety. No sign of any special protection on God's part was given. The waters seemed to stand at their highes...
NOAH'S THREE SONS Genesis 9:18 Noah's sin reminds us how weak are the best of men; liable to fall, even after the most marvelous deliverances. The love of strong drink will drag a preacher of righteo...
The new order in human affairs was initiated by the bestowment of a blessing on Noah and his sons. The first note of change is seen in the word which declared man's relation to the lower orders. In Ed...
And he drank of the wine, and was (o) drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. (o) This is set before us to show what a horrible thing drunkenness is....
Drunk. Noe by the judgment of the fathers was not guilty of sin, in being overcome by wine; because he knew not the strength of it. (Challoner) --- Wine, Though vines had grown from the beginning, the...
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Reader! it is not among the smallest of our mercies, that God the Holy Ghost hath caused the infirmities of his saints...
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...
In chapter 9 begins the history of the new earth. God blesses the earth more than before; and the answer to the sweet savour of the sacrifice assures the world that a universal deluge will never recur...
AND HE DRANK OF THE WINE, AND WAS DRUNKEN,.... Either not being acquainted with the strength of it, as is thought by many; or having been used to weaker liquor, as water; or through the infirmity of h...
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Ver. 21. _And was drunk._] For his own shame, but our learning. _Instruunt nos patres tum docentes tum labentes_. _a_...
1 God blesseth Noah. 4 Blood and murder are forbidden. 9 Gods Couenant 13 signified by the Rainebow. 18 Noah replenisheth the world, 20 planteth a Vineyard, 21 is drunken, and mocked of his sonn...
and he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Noah, as a husbandman, as a tiller of the soil, now devoted himself to the cultivation of the vine: he planted a vineyar...
NOAH'S SIN...
SECOND SECTION _The Revelation of Sin and of Piety in Noah’s Family—The Curse and the Blessing of Noah—The twofold Blessing, and the Blessing in the Curse itself._ GENESIS 9:18-29 18And the sons of...
A NEW BEGINNING FOR MAN The earth itself having been purged by water, furnishing a totally new condition of circumstances for mankind and animals, now God establishes man in a new dispensation of thin...
18-23 The drunkenness of Noah is recorded in the Bible, with that fairness which is found only in the Scripture, as a case and proof of human weakness and imperfection, even though he may have been s...
Either through ignorance and inexperience of the nature and strength of that liquor, or through the infirmity of the flesh, which was tempted by its great and, to him, new pleasantness, and by the ref...
Genesis 9:21 drank H8354 (H8799) wine H3196 drunk H7937 (H8799) uncovered H1540 (H8691) in H8432 tent...
‘And he drank of the wine and became drunk, and was uncovered within his tent.' In a drunken state Noah lies naked in his tent, unaware of the impropriety of his situation. In his right mind he would...
CONTENTS: Noamic covenant. Noah's shame and Ham's sin. CHARACTERS: Noah and family. CONCLUSION: The believer is as secure as God's promises are true. No promise of God can fail. KEY WORD: Covenant,...
Genesis 9:4. _But the blood ye shall not eat._ This prohibition of blood is repeated. Leviticus 17; Deuteronomy 12. And being connected with murder in the following verse, we are taught to abstain fro...
_Noah began to be an husbandman and he planted a vineyard; and he drank of the wine and was drunken_ THE LESSONS OF NOAH’S FALL I. THE MORAL DANGERS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS. 1. Increased temptations to...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 9:21 BECAME DRUNK. The brevity of the description of Noah’s drunkenness indicates God’s disapproval. Ham’s actions of looking on the NAKEDNESS OF HIS FATHER in the tent and the...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 9:20. And Noah began to be a husbandman] Heb. The man _of the ground._ Like the Gr. γεωργος, and the Lat. _Agricola._ As the Heb. has the article, the meaning is conveyed that...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 9:18 AND THE SONS OF NOAH, THAT WENT FORTH OF THE ARK, WERE SHEM, AND HAM, AND JAPHETH, who are here again mentioned as the heads of the nations into which the family of man develo...
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the eaRuth (Genesis 9:1). And so the commandment that was given to Adam at the beginning is now given to Noah...
and was. Genesis 6:9 Genesis 19:32 Proverbs 20:1 Proverbs 23:31...
And he drank of the wine and was drunk — 'Tis highly probable, he did not know the effect of it before. And he was uncovered in his tent — Made naked to his shame....