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Genesis 6:12

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. No JFB commentary on this verse.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Section VI - The Deluge - XXIII. The Ark 9. דור _dôr_ “age, time from birth to death,” applied either to an individual or the whole contemporary race, running parallel with some leading individua...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    IV. THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH CHAPTER 6:9-22 Before the Flood _ 1. Noah walked with God (Genesis 6:9)_ 2. The earth filled with violence (Genesis 6:11) 3. The building of the ark commanded (Genesis...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    J gives no explanation of the universal wickedness which caused God to repent man's creation, but the previous narrative has prepared for it. Probably, however, the story, which begins abruptly, has l...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    GOD LOOKED UPON THE EARTH. The simple, primitive way of saying that God took note of the condition of things upon the earth. He always does, and though he may spare so long that men often conclude th...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ALL FLESH. Noah's family the only exception. The Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The introduction to the Story of the Flood in P. Observe that, whereas J begins with the corruption of the human race, and closes with the mention of Noah, P begins with the mention of Noah and contin...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _all flesh_ Used here for "all the human race." The phrase, which is found 13 times in the Story of the Flood, is a characteristic of P. _had corrupted his way_ This expression seems to be used with...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GOD LOOKED UPON THE EARTH, &C.— God observing that his patience was to no effect, and that the hundred and twenty years, which we may now suppose near expiring, produced no fruits of repentance, resol...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. _Noah: Man of Faith_ (Genesis 6:9-12). 9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah begat three sons: Shem, Ham,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FLOOD This narrative records the judgment of God upon the sinful forefathers of mankind, and His preservation of a righteous family, in whom the divine purposes for men might be carried out. The s...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    When God made everything, it was very good. (See Genesis 1:31.) But when Noah lived, everything was evil. This change started when Adam and Eve did not obey God. (See Genesis 3:17-19.) The effect of t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 6 PEOPLE ARE VERY WICKED V1 At that time, men began to increase on the earth. Many daughters were born for them. V2 Then the sons of God saw that...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALL FLESH HAD CORRUPTED HIS WAY UPON THE EARTH. — These material things were incapable alike of moral good or evil, but man had made them the instruments of working his carnal will, and because of the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת ־הָ אָ֖רֶץ וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    NOAH BUILDS THE ARK Genesis 6:9 Human sin had reached an awful climax. Sooner or later its results must have swept the human race from the earth, as smallpox will slay every native on some infected i...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    With the passing of the centuries, the degeneration of the individual and the family became that of society. There had been intermixture between the descendants of Cain and those of Seth, resulting in...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    GOD SAVED NOAH The one righteous man on earth, Noah, and his family were saved by God (Genesis 6:8). Noah was "just" in that he lived in accord with God's will. He was "perfect," or upright, in that h...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Its way, being abandoned to the most shameful and unnatural sins. (Liranus)_...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND GOD LOOKED UPON THE EARTH, AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS CORRUPT,.... This is spoken as if he had never looked upon it before; whereas his eyes are always upon the earth, and the inhabitants of it, and upon...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Ver. 12. _All flesh had corrupted his way._] General defection precedes general destruc...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The wickednesse of the world, which prouoked Gods wrath, and caused the Flood. 8 Noah findeth grace. 13 The order, forme, and end of the Arke. 1 AND it came to passe, when men began to multiply o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. These statements complete the picture drawn in verses 1-4. Utterly corrupt was the earth...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    God Chooses Noah...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    THIRD PART THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD’S JUDGMENT AND OF THE WORLD’S RENEWING BY MEANS OF THE FLOOD. THE FLOOD AND THE DROWNED RACE. THE ARK AND THE SAVED HUMANITY. (THE ARK AS A TYPE OF THE PIOUS FAMIL...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    MAN'S DEGRADATION TO CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE It was not long before mankind multiplied greatly on earth, and the dreadful effects of sin multiplied with them. this is emphasized in the corrupt mixture...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-21 God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psalms 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    All men, as the word _flesh_ is taken, PSALMS 78:39 ISAIAH 40:5, and oft elsewhere, HAD CORRUPTED HIS WAY; either, 1. God's way, his precepts concerning religion and righteousness; or, 2. Their own...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Genesis 9:1-29 We have, now, arrived at a deeply-important and strongly-marked division of our book. Enoch has passed off the scene. His walk, as a stranger on earth, has terminated in his translation...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 6:12 God H430 looked H7200 (H8799) earth H776 corrupt H7843 (H8738) flesh H1320 corrupted H7843 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CORRUPTION IN THE EARTH (GENESIS 6:11) Genesis 6:11 ‘And the earth (or inhabited world or land) was corrupt before God (Elohim), and the earth (or land) was filled with violence.' This would app...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 6:12 _(with Luke 17:26)_ I. The statement in Genesis of the corruption of the world before the flood is expressed in very strong language: "The wickedness of man was great in the earth." Only...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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 of...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Flood announced. Compromise of sons of God with daughters of men. CHARACTERS: Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth. CONCLUSION: The true believer can float in peace on the very waters by which the wic...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 6:2. _Sons of God._ Some understand this expression of Seth's sons, who intermarried with Cain's daughters, but assign no reason for their being called the _daughters of men._ Others understan...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The earth also was corrupt_ CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE, TWIN EVILS If succeeding generations inquire, wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto the work of His hands? What meaneth the heat of this great...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 6:9 Noah’s Descendants. Chapters Genesis 6:1 describe a flood that leads to a renewal of the earth—a reminder of the creation account of...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 6:11 In contrast to Noah, THE EARTH WAS CORRUPT IN GOD’S SIGHT. These verses confirm vv. Genesis 6:1. Here the emphasis is on the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 6:9_ NOAH, OR A GOOD MAN LIVING IN DEGENERATE TIMES I. That good men living in degenerate times are not overlooked by God. The degenerate and wicked condit...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    § 4. THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH (CH. 6:9-9:29). EXPOSITION GENESIS 6:9 THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH. "Novi capitis initium = "haec est historia Noachi (Rosenmüller; cf. Genesis 5:1). Noah

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter six. It came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    God. Genesis 6:8 Genesis 18:21 Job 33:27 Psalms 14:2 Psalms 33:13...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    NOAH AND THE ARK Genesis 6:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a verse in the New Testament which reads: "As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." 1. ONE CANNOT BUT MARVE...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    God looked upon the earth — And was himself an eye — witness of the corruption that was in it, for all flesh had corrupted his way — It was not some particular nations that were thus wicked, but the w...

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