GENESIS CHAPTER 7 God commands Noah to enter into the ark; the reason of it, GENESIS 7:1. Directs him as to the manner and time, GENESIS 7:2. Noah's obedience in all things, GENESIS 7:5. His age, GENESIS 7:6. His entrance with his family, &c. into the ark, GENESIS 7:7. The day in which the flood beg... [ Continue Reading ]
OBJ. The distinction of clean and unclean beasts was not before the law. ANSW. Some legal things were prescribed and used before the law, as abstinence from the eating of blood, GENESIS 9:4, and, among other things, sacrifices, as learned men have sufficiently proved; and consequently the distinctio... [ Continue Reading ]
Of clean fowls, which he leaves to be understood out of the foregoing verse, BY SEVENS; and of the unclean, by two; as before of the beasts, TO KEEP SEED ALIVE, i.e. the issue or breed of them.... [ Continue Reading ]
YET SEVEN DAYS, or, _after seven days, _ the Hebrew _Lamed_ being put for _after, _ as it is EXODUS 16:1 PSALMS 19:3 JEREMIAH 41:4. Or, _within seven days, _ which time God allowed to the world as a further space of repentance, whereof therefore it is probable Noah gave them notice; and it is not un... [ Continue Reading ]
Which was said GENESIS 6:22, and is here repeated, because this was an eminent instance of his faith and obedience.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Or, _for fear of; _ for _fear_ is ascribed to and commended in Noah, HEBREWS 11:7. Or, _from the face of._... [ Continue Reading ]
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They went by the secret impulse of their great Creator and Governor, _\see GENESIS 2:19, GENESIS 6:20\_ TWO AND TWO; of which see above, GENESIS 4:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
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IN THE SIX HUNDREDTH YEAR; either complete, or rather current or begun; otherwise he had lived three hundred and fifty one years after the flood, not three hundred and fifty only, as it is written, GENESIS 9:29. IN THE SECOND MONTH; either, 1. Of that year of Noah's life; or, 2. Of the year. Now as... [ Continue Reading ]
God by this gradual proceeding both awakened to repentance, and gave them space for it.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE SELFSAME DAY on which the flood began by that terrible shower. Heb. _In the body, _ or _essence, _ or _strength of the day, _ as GENESIS 17:26 LEVITICUS 23:14 JOSHUA 10:27: q. d. Not in the dark or twilight, like one ashamed of his action, or afraid of the people, but when it was clear day, o... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY BIRD. The first word signifies the greater, the second the less sort of birds, as appears from GENESIS 15:9, LEVITICUS 14:4, PSALMS 104:17. OF EVERY SORT; Heb. _Of every_ kind of _wing, _ whether feathered, as it is in most birds, or skinny and gristly, as in bats.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEE POOLE ON "GENESIS 7:9". i.e. All living creatures forementioned, GENESIS 7:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Or, _shut_ the door _after him, _ or _upon him, _ or _for him, _ i.e. his good and safety, against the fury either of the waters or of the people. This God did in some extraordinary manner.... [ Continue Reading ]
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, by the accession of more waters from above and beneath.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WATERS WERE INCREASED GREATLY UPON THE EARTH; overthrowing men, and houses, and trees, where possibly they did or thought to secure themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
Profane wits pretend this to be impossible, because of the vast height of divers mountains. But, 1. This cannot be thought impossible by any man that believeth a God; to whom it was as easy to bring forth a sufficiency of water, for this end, as to speak a word. And if we acknowledge a miracle of t... [ Continue Reading ]
FIFTEEN CUBITS were sufficient for the destruction of the highest men, or other creatures, though placed upon the highest mountains.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL FLESH THAT MOVED, i.e. lived; for motion is a sign of life.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whether men or beasts, &c., all that breathed the same air with man, all that lived in the same element which man by his sins had infected; whereby the fishes are excepted, as living in another element. SEE POOLE ON "GENESIS 2:7".... [ Continue Reading ]
This is so often repeated, that it may be more deeply ingrafted into the dull minds and hard hearts of men, to teach men that they ought again and again to consider this dreadful instance of God's justice against sin and incorrigible sinners.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WATERS PREVAILED, i.e. either grew higher and higher, or rather continued to prevail, and did not decrease. AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DAYS in all, whereof one part was the forty days mentioned GENESIS 7:17, as appears from GENESIS 8:4.... [ Continue Reading ]