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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:23
The Deluge. I. A STRIKING TESTIMONY TO THE DIVINE FAITHFULNESS. 1. In respect of threatenings against the wicked. Whether the faith of Noah ever betrayed symptoms of wavering during the long interval of waiting for the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:23
And every living substance was destroyed—literally, wiped out (cf. Genesis 6:7; Genesis 7:4)—which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and—literally, from, man urge—cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. Additional to the forty days of rain (Murphy), making 190 since the commencement of the Flood; or more probably inclusive of the forty days (Knobel, Lan…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:1-3
The whole race of mankind, except Noah and his family, were now dead, so that God's remembering Noah, was the return of his mercy to mankind, of whom he would not make a full end. The demands of Divine justice had been…
The Earth Becomes Dry. (b. c. 2349.)
THE EARTH BECOMES DRY. (B. C. 2349.) Here is, I. An act of God's grace: God remembered Noah and every living thing. This is an expression after the manner of men; for not any of his creatures (Luke 12:6), much less any…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:4-12
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 tossing; and many times he prov…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:4-5
Here we have the effects and evidences of the ebbing of the waters. 1. The ark rested. This was some satisfaction to Noah, to feel the house he was in upon firm ground, and no longer movable. It rested upon a mountain,…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:6-12
We have here an account of the spies which Noah sent forth to bring him intelligence from abroad, a raven and a dove. Observe here, I. That though God had told Noah particularly when the flood would come, even to a day…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:13-19
God consults our benefit, rather than our desires; he knows what is good for us better than we do for ourselves, and how long it is fit our restraints should continue, and desired mercies should be delayed. We would go…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:13-14
Here is, 1. The ground dry (Genesis 8:13), that is, all the water carried off it, which, upon the first day of the first month (a joyful new-year's-day it was), Noah was himself an eye-witness of. He removed the coverin…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:15-19
Here is, I. Noah's dismission out of the ark, Genesis 8:15-17. Observe, 1. Noah did not stir till God bade him. As he had a command to go into the ark (Genesis 7:1), so, how tedious soever his confinement there was, he…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:20-22
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, that begins with God. Though…
Noah's Sacrifice. (b. c. 2348.)
NOAH'S SACRIFICE. (B. C. 2348.) Here is, I. Noah's thankful acknowledgment of God's favour to him, in completing the mercy of his deliverance, Genesis 8:20. 1. He built an altar. Hitherto he had done nothing without par…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:1-3
The blessing of God is the cause of our doing well. On him we depend, to him we should be thankful. Let us not forget the advantage and pleasure we have from the labour of beasts, and which their flesh affords. Nor ough…
Blessing of Noah and His Sons. (b. c. 2348.)
BLESSING OF NOAH AND HIS SONS. (B. C. 2348.) We read, in the close of the foregoing chapter, the very kind things which God said in his heart, concerning the remnant of mankind which was now left to be the seed of a new…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:1-7
New arrangements for a new era. I. PROVISION FOR THE INCREASE OF THE HUMAN FAMILY. 1. The procreate instrumentality—the ordinance of marriage (Genesis 9:1, Genesis 9:7), which was - 2. The originating cause—the Divine b…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:1-7
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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:1
And God—Elohim, not because belonging to the Elohistic document (Block, Tuch, Colcnso); but rather because throughout this section the Deity is exhibited in his relations to his creatures—blessed—a repetition of the pri…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:1-7
The new life of man on the earth under a new revelation of the Divine favor. The chief points are— I. UNLIMITED POSSESSION OF THE EARTH, and use of its inhabitants and products, whether for food or otherwise; thus suppl…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:2
And the fear of you and the dread of you. Not simply of Noah and his sons, but of man in general. Shall be. Not for the first time, as it could not fail to be evoked by the sin of man during the previous generations, bu…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:3
Every—obviously admitting of "exceptions to be gathered both from the nature of the case and from the distinction of clean and unclean beasts mentioned before and afterwards" (Poole)—moving thing that liveth—clearly exc…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:4-7
The main reason of forbidding the eating of blood, doubtless was because the shedding of blood in sacrifices was to keep the worshippers in mind of the great atonement; yet it seems intended also to check cruelty, lest…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:4
But— אַךְ, an adverb of limitation or exception, as in Le Genesis 11:4, introducing a restriction on the foregoing precept—flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof. Literally, with its soul, its blood; th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:5
And surely. Again the conjunction אַךְ introduces a restriction. The blood of beasts might without fear be shed for necessary uses, but the blood of man was holy and inviolable. Following the LXX. ( καιÌ γαÌ ρ), Jerome,…