What does Genesis 7:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth."
The prevalence of the waters. The forty days are now completed. And at the end of this period the ark had been afloat for a long time. It was drifted on the waters in the direction in which they were...
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...
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 Genesis 7:13; Genesis 7:11 and Genesis 7:12...
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 FLOOD WAS FORTY DAYS UPON THE EARTH; AND THE WATERS INCREASED, AND BARE UP THE ARK, AND IT WAS LIFT UP ABOVE THE EARTH._ The flood was forty days upon the earth This refers to the descent of...
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 distinc...
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...
(17-19) THE WATERS INCREASED... — The swelling of the flood is told with great power in these verses but every stage and detail has reference to the ark, as if the author of the narrative was one of t...
וַֽ יְהִ֧י הַ מַּבּ֛וּל אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יֹ֖ום עַל ־הָ אָ֑רֶץ וַ יִּרְבּ֣וּ הַ מַּ֗יִם וַ...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesis 9:1 THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was the Flood. There is every reas...
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...
17._And the flood was forty days, etc_. Moses copiously insists upon this fact, in order to show that the whole world was immersed in the waters. Moreover, it is to be regarded as the special design o...
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 FLOOD WAS FORTY DAYS UPON THE EARTH,.... This is said with respect to what follows, and the meaning is, that when and after the flood had been upon the earth so long, then THE WATERS INCREASE...
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. Ver. 17. _It was lift up above the waters._] Afterwards it went upon th...
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 flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. It took forty days for the Flood to reach its crest, to come to full d...
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:...
17-20 The flood was increasing forty days. The waters rose so high, that the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed more than twenty feet. There is no place on earth so high as to set men out o...
THE FLOOD; or, _that flood_ of waters which was poured down in that shower mentioned GENESIS 7:12; otherwise the flood was one hundred and fifty days upon the earth, GENESIS 7:24. THE WATERS INCREASED...
Genesis 7:17 flood H3999 earth H776 forty H705 days H3117 waters H4325 increased H7235 (H8799) up H5375 (H8799) ark H8392 rose H7311 (H8799) earth H776 GENESIS 7:4, GENESIS 7:12...
DESCRIPTION OF THE FLOOD AT ITS HEIGHT (GENESIS 7:17) Genesis 7:17 ‘And the cataclysmic flood was forty days on the earth (land).' We notice that it does not just say rain as in verse 10. While the...
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 o...
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 s...
_And the waters increased_ INCREASED AFFLICTION I. THAT AFFLICTION IS PROGRESSIVE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT AND SEVERITY. II. THAT INCREASED AFFLICTION IS THE CONTINUED AND EFFECTIVE DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 7:17 THE WATERS PREVAILED ON THE EARTH 150 DAYS (v. Genesis 7:24). The figure of 150 days, which includes the 40 days of rain mentioned in v. Genesis 7:12, is repeated in Genes...
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 ope...
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 began With...
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...
Genesis 7:4 Genesis 7:12...
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 A...