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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Genesis 8:5

The tops of the mountains were seen — Like little islands appearing above water. They felt ground above forty days before they saw it, according to Dr. Lightfoots's computation, whence he infers that if the waters decreased proportionably, the ark drew eleven cubits in water.

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See also Genesis 8:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - The Land Was Dried 1. שׁכך _shākak_ “stoop, assuage.” 3. חסר _chāsar_ “want, fail, be abated.” 4. אררט _'ărārāṭ_, “Ararat,” a land forming part of Armenia. It is mentioned in 2 Kings 19:37,

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 Noah Remembered _ 1. Noah remembered (Genesis 8:1)_ 2. The ark resting (Genesis 8:4) 3. The raven sent forth (Genesis 8:6) 4. The sending forth of the dove ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The mention of the rain (Genesis 8:2_ b_) comes from J, and since Genesis 8:3_ b_ with its dating belongs to P, Genesis 8:3_ a_ may be assigned to J. With Genesis

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FIRST DAY. Tuesday. (The only day named that is not. Sabbath.)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    (P). _the tenth month_ Another date is here given. The tops of other mountains were visible on the 1st day of the 10th month. Reckoning 30 days for a month, we thus have an interval of 73 days between...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS SEEN— This is no contradiction to the former verse, in which it is said, that the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat; for it is very easy to conceive, that a vessel of so heav...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART TWENTY-TWO: THE WORLD AFTER THE FLOOD (Genesis 8:1-22; Genesis 9:1-29) 1. _The Subsidence of the Flood_ (Genesis 8:1-14). And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE WATERS DECREASED CONTINUALLY UNTIL THE TENTH MONTH: IN THE TENTH MONTH, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, WERE THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS SEEN._ Tops of the mountains seen. Since the latter of t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 8 THE FLOOD ENDS V1 But God remembered Noah. And God remembered all the animals that were with Noah in the *ark. And God made a wind blow over th...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SEEN. — See Note on Genesis 8:4....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הַ מַּ֗יִם הָיוּ֙ הָלֹ֣וךְ וְ חָסֹ֔ור

  • 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 LEAVES THE ARK Genesis 8:1 Traditions of the Flood are found in every country, from the tablets of Babylon to the rude carvings of the Aztecs, proving man's common origin. “God remembered Noah.”...

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

    Upborne on the billows of judgment, the Ark rode securely, holding within it the nucleus of a new departure in human history. When the work of judgment was fully accomplished, the waters decreased, an...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    A THANKSGIVING SACRIFICE The flood lasted one year and ten days (Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:14). Noah's first act on the renewed earth was to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving. It could be viewed as a sa...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the waters decreased continually until the (d) tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. (d) Which was the month of December....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. The gradual decrease of the waters, afforded scope...

  • 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

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE WATERS DECREASED CONTINUALLY UNTIL THE TENTH MONTH,.... That is, from the seventeenth of the seventh month, to the first of the tenth month, a space of two months and thirteen days, and being...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. Ver. 5. _The waters decreased._] Not all on the...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The waters returned from off the earth continually_ Hebrews they were _going and returning;_ a gradual departure. The heat of the sun exhaled much, and perhaps the subterraneous caverns soaked in mor...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The waters asswage. 4 The Arke resteth on Ararat. 7 The rauen and the doue. 15 Noah, being commanded, 18 goeth forth of the Arke. 20 He buildeth an Altar, and offereth sacrifice, 21 which God...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. The subsiding of the waters was slow, but steady, un...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Flood Subsides...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    THIRD SECTION _The Ark, and the Saved and Renewed Humanity_ GENESIS 8:1-19 1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark; and God made a wind to p...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A RENEWED EARTH The five months of floating on a shoreless sea would seem interminable to Noah and his family, and it can be well imagined that they would feel that God had forgotten them. "But God re...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DECREASED CONTINUALLY: _ Heb._ were in going and decreasing...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 tossin...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 8:5 waters H4325 decreased H2637 (H8800) continually H1980 (H8800) until H5704 tenth H6224 month H2320 tenth...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    STAGES OF DELIVERANCE (GENESIS 8:4) Genesis 8:4 ‘On the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains (or hills) of Ararat, and the waters continued going...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TENTH MONTH That is, January....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Genesis 8:1. _And God remembered Noah,_ Noah had been shut up in the ark for many a day, and at the right time God thought of him, practically thought of him, and came to visit him. Dear heart, you h...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Waters receding, exit from the ark. Noah's altar. CHARACTERS: Noah and family. CONCLUSION: When judgment days are past, the believer will find himself safely landed in a better world. KEY...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 8:3. _The waters returned from off the earth continually._ The Hebrew, חלוךְ ושׁוב _cha-loveck ve-shou._ Montanus renders _eundo et redeundo,_ the going and coming of the waters. The word is u...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The waters assuaged_ THE GRADUAL CESSATION OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION I. THAT IT IS MARKED BY A RICH MANIFESTATION OF DIVINE MERCY TO THOSE WHO HAVE SURVIVED THE TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION. 1. God’s remembra...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 8:4. Ararat] “A region nearly in the middle of Armenia, between the Araxes and the lakes Van and Urumia (2 Kings 19:37, Isaiah 37:38: [‘land of Armenia,’ _lit._ ‘of Ararat’],...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 8:1 AND GOD. _Elohim, i.e. God in _his most universal relation to his creatures. The supposition of two different accounts or histories being intermingled in the narrative of the F...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The eighth chapter begins with the words, And God remembered Noah (Genesis 8:1), Let me tell you this, God never forgot him. It is important that we realize that in the Bible, there are terms that ar...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    decreased continually. Heb. were in going and decreasing. Genesis 7:11...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE ASSUAGING OF THE WATERS Genesis 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. There is a striking verse in 2 Peter 3:6, which reads: "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the...

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