While. Jehovah's covenant with Noah was unconditional in connection with the earth; as with Abraham, to give him the land (Genesis 15), and with David, to give him the throne (2 Samuel 7).
and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6) seven times in this verse, to emphasize the completeness and perfection of the Covenant (App-10). Eight things named in. pairs of opposites.
Verse Genesis 8:22. _WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, SEED-TIME AND HARVEST,_ _c._] There is something very expressive in the original, עד כל ימי הארץ _od col yemey haarets_, until all the DAYS of the earth...
- XXVII. The Ark Was Evacuated 19. משׁפחה _mı̂shpāchah_, “kind, clan, family.” שׁפחה _shı̂pchâh_, “maid-servant; related: spread.” 20. מזבח _mı̂zbēach_, “altar; related: slay animals, sacrifice.”...
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
Noah's Burnt-offering and Jehovah's Acceptance of it. (J.)...
_While the earth remaineth_ Observe the poetical character of this verse. The four pairs of words are recorded with an impressive and rhythmical dignity....
4. _Noah's Altar_ (Genesis 8:20-22). 20 And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. And Jehovah smelled th...
_WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, SEEDTIME AND HARVEST, AND COLD AND HEAT, AND SUMMER AND WINTER, AND DAY AND NIGHT SHALL NOT CEASE._ While the earth remaineth. The year is here divided into six seasons, f...
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...
WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH... — The traditional interpretation of this verse among the Jews represents the year as divided into six seasons. But this is untenable; for in Palestine itself there are two...
עֹ֖ד כָּל ־יְמֵ֣י הָ אָ֑רֶץ זֶ֡רַע וְ֠
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...
While the earth remaineth, (l) seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. (l) The order of nature destroyed by the flood, is restored by God's...
_Seed-time, according to the Targum of Jonathan, is the equinox of September; harvest, that of March; winter and summer denote the solstice of December and of June. But the Hebrews probably divided th...
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. How hath time, through a period of near 4000 years, stamped the truth of...
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 FIRST ALTAR IN THE NEW WORLD_ ‘And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar,’ etc. Genesis 8:20 Noa...
22._While the earth remaineth _(285) By these words the world is again completely restored. For so great was the confusion and disorder which had overspread the earth, that there was a necessity for s...
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...
WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH,.... Which as to its substance may remain for ever, Ecclesiastes 1:4 yet as to its form and quality will be changed; that and all in it will be burnt up; there will be an end...
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Ver. 27. _While the earth remaineth._] Heb., All the days of the earth. T...
_While the earth remaineth_ Here it is plainly intimated that the earth is not to remain always: it, and all the works therein, must be burned up. But as long as it doth remain, God here promises the...
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...
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. That is the promise, that is the order of God, who fixes the laws of natu...
The Promise of God...
FOURTH PART THE GENESIS OF THE NEW, WORLD-HISTORICAL, HUMAN RACE; OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE FORM OF SIN THAT NOW COMES IN, AND OF THE NEW FORM OF PIETY; OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BLESSING OF SHEM...
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...
WHILE THE EARTH REMAINED: _ Heb._ as yet all the days of the earth...
20-22 Noah was now gone out into a desolate world, where, one might have thought, his first care would have been to build a house for himself, but he begins with an alter for God. He begins well, tha...
WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, viz. in this estate; for though it seems probable that the substance of the earth will abide for ever, after the dissolution of the world by fire; yet that will be in anothe...
Genesis 8:22 earth H776 remains H3117 Seedtime H2233 harvest H7105 Cold H7120 heat H2527 Winter H2779 summer H7019 day
NOAH OFFERS A SACRIFICE TO YAHWEH AND RECEIVES HIS PERSONAL COVENANT (GENESIS 8:20) Now we are approaching the covenants around which the whole account is based and was the reason why it was preserved...
Genesis 8:20 , GENESIS 8:22 Noah, we are told, "was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God." Noah reverenced right and justice; he ordered his family well; he lived in th...
Genesis 8:20. _And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offering on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour;_ A savour...
Genesis 8:15. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all...
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...
_While the earth remaineth, seed time, and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease._ THE SERMON OF THE SEASONS I. In the text there is A SOLEMN HINT OF W...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 8:20 Noah’s burnt offering is intended to express gratitude for divine deliverance. It is also an act of atonement. Despite the human tendency to sin, atonement through sacrifi...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 8:20_ THE DEVOUT CONDUCT OF A GOOD MAN AFTER A SPECIAL DELIVERANCE FROM EMINENT DANGER I. That Noah gratefully acknowledged his deliverance as from God. Tr...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 8:15-1 AND GOD SPAKE UNTO NOAH, SAYING, GO FORTH OF THE ARK. For which command doubtless the patriarch waited, as he had done for instructions to enter in (Genesis 7:11), "being re...
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...
While the earth remaineth. Heb. as yet all the days of the Isaiah 54:8 seed-time. Genesis 45:6 Exodus 34:21 Psalms 74:16...
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...
If seedtime and harvest were never to be interrupted, then why were there famines? PROBLEM: God promised Noah: “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest … shall not cease.” However, there are ma...