Genesis 6:1

_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN MEN BEGAN TO MULTIPLY ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND DAUGHTERS WERE BORN UNTO THEM,_ When men began to multiply. This is a general statement relative to the increase of the human family, without any intimation of the precise period to which it refers. Some writers have maintained that in the times immediately preceding the flood, the world was as densely populated as it is in the present day. But all calculations of the numbers of mankind founded on modern statistics, and applied to estimate the probable amount of the antediluvian population, are utterly fallacious. So far from its having been so great as has been surmised, the awfully corrupt and disordered state of society which widely prevailed must have been unfavourable to population, or have rapidly diminished it; and, accordingly, there are Scriptural data to warrant the belief that it was comparatively...

1._And it came to pass, when men began to multiply_. Moses, having enumerated in order, ten patriarchs, with whom the worship of God remained pure, now relates, that their families also were corrupted. But this narration must be traced to an earlier period than the five hundredth year of Noah. For, in order to make a transition to the history of the deluge, he prefaces it by declaring the whole world to have been so corrupt, that scarcely anything was left to God, out of the widely spread defection. That this may be the more apparent, the principle is to be kept in memory, that the world was then as if divided into two parts; because the family of Seth cherished the pure and lawful worship of Good, from which the rest had fallen. Now, although all mankind had been formed for the worship of God, and therefore sincere religion ought everywhere to have reigned; yet since the greater part ha...

1-7 The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that wicked world: God's just wrath, and his holy resolution to punish it. In all ages there has been a peculiar curse of God upon marriages between professors of true religion and its avowed enemies. The evil example of the ungodly party corrupts or greatly hurts the other. Family religion is put an end to, and the children are trained up according to the worldly maxims of that parent who is without the fear of God. If we profess to be the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, we must not marry without his consent. He will never give his blessing, if we prefer beauty, wit, wealth, or worldly honours, to faith and holiness. The Spirit of God strove with men, by sending Enoch, Noah, and perhaps others, to preach to them; by waiting to be gra...

CHAPTER VI _The children of God, among whom the true religion was at first_ _preserved, corrupt it by forming matrimonial connections with_ _irreligious women_, 1, 2. _God, displeased with these connections and their consequences,_ _limits the continuance of the old world to one hundred and_ _twenty years_, 3. _The issue of those improper connections termed giants_, 4. _An affecting description of the depravity of the world_, 5, 6. _God threatens the destruction of every living creature_, 7. Noah and his family find grace in his

- The Growth of Sin 3. דון _dı̂yn_ “be down, strive, subdue, judge.” בשׁגם _bāshagām_ “inasmuch, as also.” The rendering “in their error” requires the pointing בשׁגם _b__e__shāgām_, and the plural form of the following pronoun. It is also unknown to the Septuagint. 4. נפילים _n__e__pı̂lı̂ym_ “assailants, fellers, men of violence, tyrants.” Having traced the line of descent from Adam through Sheth, the seed of God, to Noah, the author proceeds to describe the general spread and growth of moral evil in the race of man, and the determination of the Lord to wipe it away from the

EXPOSITION GENESIS 6:1, GENESIS 6:2 AND IT CAME TO PASS. Literally, _it was_;_ _not in immediate sequence to the preceding chapter, but at some earlier point in the antediluvian period; perhaps about the time of Enoch (corresponding to that of Lamech the Cainite), if not in the days of Enos. Havernick joins the passage with Genesis 4:26. WHEN MEN—_ha'adham_, _i.e._ the human race in general, and not the posterity of Cain in particular (Ainsworth, Rosenmüller, Bush)—BEGAN TO MULTIPLY—in virtue of the Divine blessing ...

AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN MEN BEGAN TO MULTIPLY UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH,.... Either mankind in general, or rather the posterity of Cain, who were mere natural men, such as they were when born into the world, and as brought up in it, destitute of the grace of God, and of the knowledge and fear of him; and who in proportion much more multiplied than the posterity of Seth, because of the practice of polygamy, which by the example of Lamech, one of that race, might prevail among them: AND DAUGHTERS WERE BORN UNTO THEM; not daughters only, but sons also, though it may be more daughters than sons, or it may denote remarkable ones, for their beauty or immodesty, or both; and chiefly this is observed for the sake of what follows....

CHAPTER 6:1-8 The Increasing Corruption _ 1. The sons of God and the daughters of men (Genesis 6:1)_ 2. The warning of Jehovah (Genesis 6:3) 3. Increased wickedness (Genesis 6:4) 4. Judgment announced (Genesis 6:7) 5. Noah found grace (Genesis 6:8) The question is who are the sons of God who took the daughters of men. The general view is that the sons of God were the pious descendants of Seth and the daughters of men, the Cainitish offspring. However, there are strong arguments against it. 1. There is no proof in the t

The Angel Marriages. This section belongs to J, but to what stratum is not clear. In its nakedly mythological character it is quite unlike anything else in the history. It is obscure at some points, probably through abbreviation, and the phrase the men of renown implies that a cycle of stories was current about the Nephilim. It does not join on to the preceding genealogy, since the opening words point to a time much earlier than that of Noah. It serves at present as an introduction to the story of the Flood; matters had come to such a pass that nothing but the almost complete extermination of the race could cure the evil. But it does not really lead up to this, for the writer does not imply that these unions resulted in a progeny of monstrous wickedness. It is a kind of coarser parallel to the story of the forbidden fruit; in both the Divinely-appointed limits are transgressed. Here we r...

The Chronology having been brought up to Noah's days, the History takes us back (not forward). MEN. sing, with art.. _the man Adam._ See App-14. EARTH. Hebrew. _h'adamah, ground._ THEM: i.e. to Adam and Eve, as in Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 5:2....