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Verse Genesis 6:5. _THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT_] What an awful
character does God give of the inhabitants of the antediluvian world!
1. They were _flesh_, (Genesis 6:3,) wholly sensual, the desi...
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- The Growth of Sin
3. דון _dı̂yn_ “be down, strive, subdue, judge.” בשׁגם
_bāshagām_ “inasmuch, as also.” The rendering “in their
error” requires the pointing בשׁגם _b__e__shāgām_, and the
plural...
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CHAPTER 6:1-8
The Increasing Corruption
_ 1. The sons of God and the daughters of men (Genesis 6:1)_
2. The warning of Jehovah (Genesis 6:3)
3. Increased wickedness (Genesis 6:4)
4. Judgment anno...
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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 Genesis
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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...
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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...
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GOD. Jehovah. App-4.
WICKEDNESS. lewdness, moral depravity. App-44.
GREAT. multiplied. Very emphatic....
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_of man_ Literally, "the man," _ha-adam_, used generically, as in
Genesis 6:1.
"The unity of the race is a consistent doctrine of the O.T. It was
האדם, _man_, when created as a single individual. It s...
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Introduction to the story of the Flood from J: Jehovah sees the
sinfulness of man and resolves to annihilate the race.
Genesis 6:5 to Genesis 9:17. The Flood. (J and P.)
Here follows the Hebrew narr...
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DISCOURSE: 13
EXTENT OF MAN’S WICKEDNESS
Genesis 6:5. _God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually._
T...
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THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN—GREAT, &C.— _God saw their wickedness to be
great,_ after the period of the hundred and twenty years which he had
granted them to return and repent; he saw that they amended not,...
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PART TWENTY:
THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD
(Genesis 6:1-22)
1. _Universal Degeneracy_ (Genesis 6:1-8).
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
ground, and daughters were bor...
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_AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH, AND
THAT EVERY IMAGINATION OF THE_ _ THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS ONLY EVIL
CONTINUALLY._
God saw that the wickedness of man was great in...
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6:5 continually. (i-25) Lit. 'the whole day.'...
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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...
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God made people who were images of himself. So people were like God.
God is good. So people were good. God can do anything. So people could
choose what they would do. And people chose to do things tha...
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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...
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AND GOD SAW. — Really, _And Jehovah saw._
IMAGINATION. — More exactly, _form, shape._ Thus every idea or
embodied thought, which presented itself to the mind through the
working of the heart — that is...
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וַ יַּ֣רְא יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֥י רַבָּ֛ה
רָעַ֥ת הָ
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THE FLOOD
Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
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THE WICKEDNESS OF MEN
Genesis 5:25; Genesis 6:1
When a son was born to Lamech, he named him Noah, which means “
_Rest._ ”He thought that the boy would grow up to share and
alleviate the strain of dai...
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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...
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THE SONS OF GOD MARRIED THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN
From the time of the fall, men could be grouped in two major
categories. The "sons of God" would be those people who had good
morals, were God-fearing and...
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At all times. Hebrew: only evil continually. They had no relish for
any thing else: as we may say of a glutton, he thinks of nothing but
his belly. Yet some good thoughts would occur occasionally, and...
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And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.
Reader! pause over this verse, and read it twice befor...
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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...
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_AN AWFUL SIGHT_
‘And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually,’ etc.
Genesis 6:5
I. ‘IN THESE VE...
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5._And God saw that the wickedness of man was great_. Moses prosecutes
the subject to which he had just alluded, that God was neither too
harsh, nor precipitate in exacting punishment from the wicked...
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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...
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AND GOD SAW THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH,.... That it
spread throughout the earth, wherever it was inhabited by men, both
among the posterity of Cain and Seth, and who indeed now were...
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And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and
[that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil
continually.
Ver. 5. _The wickedness of man was great in the...
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_God saw that the wickedness of man_, &c. Abundance of sin was
committed in all places, by all sorts of people; and those sins in
their own nature most gross, and heinous, and provoking; and committed...
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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...
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God Resolves to Destroy Man...
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And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually. Noah's preaching had little or no effect. Jehovah saw...
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FOURTH SECTION
_The Universal Corruption in consequence of the mingling of the two
lines. The anomism (or enormity) of sins before the flood. Predominant
unbelief. Titanic pride. After the flood prev...
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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...
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THAT EVERY IMAGINATION:
Or, the whole imagination. The Hebr. word signifieth not only the
imagination, but also the purposes and desires.
CONTINUALLY:
_ Heb._ every day...
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1-7 The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the
destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding
iniquity of that wicked world: God's just wrath, and his holy
res...
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To the heart the Scripture commonly ascribes all men's actual
wickedness, as Psalms 41:6 Proverbs 4:23, Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs
6:18,...
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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...
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‘Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the world (or
“in the land”), and that every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually.'
The occult activity, which had cl...
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IMAGINATION
Or, the whole imagination. The Hebrew word signifies not only the
imagination but also the purposes and desires....
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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...
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Genesis 6:5 , GENESIS 6:7
I. "In these verses," it will be said, "we see the results of the
fall. God made man innocent, and man fell when he lost this
independent virtue, this innocency of his own; a...
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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...
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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...
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_God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth._
A DEGENERATE WORLD
1_._ The organic unity of society is favourable to the spread of moral
evil.
2. The native willingness of the human s...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 6:2. Sons of God.]—That these were angels is a view which,
it is well-known, has been held from ancient times, both by Jews and
Christians. Of the latter class may be named Ju...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 6:1, GENESIS 6:2
AND IT CAME TO PASS. Literally, _it was_;_ _not in immediate sequence
to the preceding chapter, but at some earlier point in the
antediluvian period; perhaps about...
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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...
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God. Genesis 13:13 Genesis 18:20 Genesis 18:21 Psalms 14:1 Psalms 53:2
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THE CORRUPTED EARTH
Genesis 6:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
As we approach the story of the flood, which God sent as a judgment
upon the earth, which was corrupt before God and filled with violence,
it will...
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And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth —
Abundance of sin was committed in all places, by all sorts of people:
and those sins in their own nature most gross and heinous, and
pro...