Genesis 9:20

_AND NOAH BEGAN TO BE AN HUSBANDMAN, AND HE PLANTED A VINEYARD:_ AND NOAH BEGAN TO BE AN HUSBANDMAN - literally, And Noah began a man of the ground. It is not implied in this phraseology that he was the first cultivator of the soil; because Cain had engaged in agricultural pursuits long before him (Genesis 4:2). Moreover, the fact of his being a tiller of the ground is not stated in the form of a distinct and independent proposition, but is mentioned merely as introductory to what follows, with which it is so closely connected that the two clauses of the verse may be combined in one sentence thus: 'in the course of his field operations he commenced planting a vineyard.' The valleys of the Gordyaean range, or Jebel Judi, are well adapted for the rearing of the vine, which is still much cultivated among the Nestorians, and frequently abused also by too free indulgence amid the fe

20._And Noah began to be an husbandman_. I do not so explain. the words, as if he then, for the first time, began to give his attention to the cultivation of the fields; but, (in my opinion,) Moses rather intimates, that Noah, with a collected mind, though now an old man, returned to the culture of the fields, and to his former labors. It is, however, uncertain whether he had been a vine-dresser or not. It is commonly believed that wine was not in use before that time. And this opinion has been the more willingly received, as affording an honorable pretext for the excuse of Noah’s sin. But it does not appear to me probable that the fruit of the vine, which excels all others, should have remained neglected and unprofitable. Also, Moses does not say that Noah was drunken on the first day on which he tasted it. Therefore, leaving this question undetermined, I rather suppose, that we are to...

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 surprised into the sin; and to show that the best of men cannot stand upright, unless they depend upon Divine grace, and are upheld thereby. Ham appears to have been a bad man, and probably rejoiced to find his father in an unbecoming situation. It was said of Noah, that he was perfect in his generations, ch. Genesis 6:9; but this is meant of sincerity, not of a sinless perfection. Noah, who had kept sober in drunken company, is now drunk in sober company. Let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. We have need to be very careful when we use God's good creatures plentifully, lest we use them to excess, Luke 21:34. T...

Verse Genesis 9:20. _NOAH BEGAN TO BE A HUSBANDMAN_] איש האדמה _ish haadamah,_ A man of the ground, a farmer; by his _beginning_ to be a husbandman we are to understand his recommencing his agricultural operations, which undoubtedly he had carried on for six hundred years before, but this had been interrupted by the flood. And the transaction here mentioned might have occurred many years posterior to the deluge, even after Canaan was born and grown up, for the date of it is not fixed in the text. The word _husband_ first occurs here, and scarcely appears proper, because it is always applied to man in his _married_ state, as _wife_ is to the woman. The etymology of the term will at once show its propriety when applied to the _head_ of a family. _Husband_, [A.S. _husband_], is Anglo-Saxon, and simply signifies the _bond_ of t

- 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 _kerem_, “orchard, vineyard.” 21. יין _yayı̂n_, “wine; related: ferment.” After the blessing on the new heads of the human race has been pronounced, and the covenant with them renewed, we are prepared for a new development of human action. This appears, however, in the form of an event which is itself a meet preliminary to the subsequent stage of affairs. The prophecy of Noah, delivered in the shape of a sol

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 developed, the writer having described the important modifications made upon the law of nature and the covenant of grace, and being now about to proceed with the onward course of human history. The present section, extending to Genesis 9:27, is usually assigned to the Jehovistic author (Tuch,Bleek, Kalisch, Colenso, Kuenen), though by Davidson it is ascribed to a so-called redactor, with the exception of the present clause, which is recognized as the Jehovist's contribution to the story. The ground of this apportionment is the introduction of the name Jehovah in...

AND NOAH BEGAN TO BE AN HUSBANDMAN,.... Or "a man of the earth" c, not lord of it, as Jarchi, though he was, but a tiller of the earth, as he had been before the flood, and now began to be again; he returned to his old employment, and which perhaps he improved, having invented, as the Jews d say, instruments of husbandry; it may be, the use of the plough, which made the tillage of the ground more easy; he was expert in husbandry, as Aben Ezra observes, and which, as he remarks, is great wisdom; and though he was so great a man, yet he employed himself in this way: AND HE PLANTED A VINEYARD; not vines, but a vineyard; there were vines before scattered up and down, here one and there another, but he planted a number of them together, and set them in order, as the Jewish writers say e; and some of them f will have it that he found a vine which the flood brought out of the garden of Eden, a...

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 (Genesis 9:18) 5. Noah's drunkenness (Genesis 9:20) 6. Noah's prophecy (Genesis 9:25) 7. Noah's death (Genesis 9:28) A new start is made after

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 together, we have an account of Noah similar to the rest of the genealogy in Genesis 5. Genesis 9:18 is from J, but not entirely from the same stratum. Genesis 9:18 f. belongs to J's genealogical table in Genesis 10. Genesis 9:20 has close poin

BEGAN TO BE. was. Hebrew idiom. Compare Luke 12:1.Matthew 26:37; Mark 10:41.Luke 3:23.Mark 11:15. HUSBANDMAN. Hebrew. _man of the ground,_ i.e. giving himself to tillage....