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The raven and the dove have been thought to stand for the believer's two natures: the "old man" satisfied with a world under judgment; the "new man" finding satisfaction only in the things of the new creation.
Verse Genesis 8:8. _HE SENT FORTH A DOVE_] The dove was sent forth _thrice_; the first time she _speedily_ returned, having, in all probability, gone but a little way from the ark, as she must natura...
- 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
DOVE:. clean bird. Deuteronomy 14:11....
_a dove_ The definite article is used also here, though there would have been seven pairs of doves. From the opening clause of Genesis 8:10, we may conclude that the narrative here was originally full...
The Story of the Raven and the Dove. (J.) 6. _at the end of forty days_ The forty days mentioned in Genesis 7:4; Genesis 7:12. _the window_ LXX θυρίδα, Lat. _fenestram_. This was not mentioned by P in...
ALSO HE SENT FORTH A DOVE, &C.— From Genesis 8:10 it appears, that there was seven days' interval between the sending forth the raven and the dove. The dove was sent forth, probably, because it is a b...
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
_ALSO HE SENT FORTH A DOVE FROM HIM, TO SEE IF THE WATERS WERE ABATED FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE GROUND;_ Also he sent forth a dove. Disappointed with the raven, Noah made choice of a bird on whose doc...
8:8 low (d-16) Or 'light.'...
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...
A dove is a bird that likes to live in valleys. The dove returned because the water still covered the valleys....
HE SENT FORTH A DOVE... — From the nature of its food, the raven had not brought back to Noah any special information; but as the dove feeds on vegetable products, he hopes that he shall learn by her...
וַ יְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֶת ־הַ יֹּונָ֖ה מֵ אִתֹּ֑ו
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...
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 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...
ALSO HE SENT FORTH A DOVE FROM HIM,.... Seven days after he had sent out the raven, as in Genesis 8:10 TO SEE IF THE WATERS WERE ABATED FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE GROUND; for the dove is a creature tha...
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; Ver. 8. _Also he sent forth a dove._] A bird that being swift and simple, willingly "flies" back...
Gen. 8:7, 8, etc. _Concerning the raven and the dove, that Noah sent forth. _ The dove is an emblem of a gracious soul, which, finding no rest for its foot, no solid peace or satisfaction in this worl...
Noah _sent forth a raven_ Through the window of the ark; _which went forth_ As the Hebrew phrase is, _going forth and returning;_ that is, flying about, but returning to the ark for rest; probably not...
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...
Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;...
The Sending of the Raven and the Dove...
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...
4-12 The ark rested upon a mountain, whither it was directed by the wise and gracious providence of God, that might rest the sooner. God has times and places of rest for his people after their tossin...
The _dove_ flies lower and longer than the raven, and is more sociable and familiar with man, and more constant to its accustomed dwelling, and more loving and faithful to its mate, and therefore more...
Genesis 8:8 out H7971 (H8762) dove H3123 see H7200 (H8800) waters H4325 receded H7043 (H8804) face...
STAGES OF DELIVERANCE (GENESIS 8:4) Genesis 8:4 ‘On the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains (or hills) of Ararat, and the waters continued going...
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...
_Noah opened the window of the ark_ THE JUDICIOUS CONDUCT OF A GOOD MAN IN SEEKING TO ASCERTAIN THE FACTS OF LIFE AND HIS RELATION THERETO We observe: I. THAT NOAH DID NOT EXHIBIT AN IMPETUOUS HAST...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 8:6. Window.] Properly, “hole:” not the same word as in ch. Genesis 6:16.— GENESIS 8:7. RAVEN.] Probably so called from its blackness (Gesenius, Fürst): from its cry or croa...
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...
a dove. Genesis 8:10 Song of Solomon 1:15 Song of Solomon 2:11 Song of Solomon 2:12...
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...
He sent forth a dove — Which returned the first time with no good news, but probably wet and dirty; but the second time she brought an olive leaf in her bill, which appeared to be fresh plucked off; a...