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Verse Genesis 8:21. _THE LORD SMELLED A SWEET SAVOUR_] That is, he
was well pleased with this religious act, performed in obedience to
his own appointment, and in faith of the promised Saviour. That...
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- XXVII. The Ark Was Evacuated
19. משׁפחה _mı̂shpāchah_, “kind, clan, family.”
שׁפחה _shı̂pchâh_, “maid-servant; related: spread.”
20. מזבח _mı̂zbēach_, “altar; related: slay animals,
sacrifice.”...
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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 ...
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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
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THE LORD. Jehovah, in covenant-relationship.
SMELLED. SWEET SAVOUR. Hebrew "smelled. smell". Figure of speech
_Polyptoton_ (App-6).
SAVOUR. First occurance. Hebrew. _nihoah,_ found only in this
conn...
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Noah's Burnt-offering and Jehovah's Acceptance of it. (J.)...
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_smelled the sweet savour_ A very strong anthropomorphism which only
occurs here. "Sweet savour" is a technical expression in the language
of Levitical sacrifice. Cf. Leviticus 1:9; Leviticus 1:13; Le...
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THE LORD SMELLED A SWEET SAVOUR— Heb. _a savour of rest,_ or
cessation from anger. This is a phrase accommodated to our
conceptions, which implies not any actual smelling, but only that this
sacrifice...
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4. _Noah's Altar_ (Genesis 8:20-22).
20 And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean
beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the
altar. And Jehovah smelled th...
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_AND THE LORD SMELLED A SWEET SAVOUR; AND THE LORD SAID IN HIS HEART,
I WILL NOT AGAIN CURSE THE GROUND ANY MORE FOR MAN'S SAKE; FOR THE
IMAGINATION OF MAN'S HEART IS EVIL FROM HIS YOUTH; NEITHER WILL...
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8:21 odour. (b-6) Lit. 'odour of rest.'...
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Before the flood, all people were evil except for Noah and his family.
(See Genesis 6:12.) God killed the evil people. But God knew that
people would still be evil. Good people and bad people will liv...
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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...
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A SWEET SAVOUR. — Heb., _a smell of satisfaction._ The idea is not
so much that the sacrifice gave God pleasure as that it caused Him to
regard man with complacency. The anger at sin which had caused...
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וַ יָּ֣רַח יְהוָה֮ אֶת ־רֵ֣יחַ הַ
נִּיחֹחַ֒
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THE FLOOD
Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
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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.”...
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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...
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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...
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And the LORD smelled a (k) sweet savour; and the LORD said in his
heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for
the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither...
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Smelled, &c. A figurative expression, denoting that God was pleased
with the sacrifices which his servant offered, (Challoner) and in this
sense it is expressed in the Chaldee, "God received his offer...
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And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I
will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake; for the
imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I...
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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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_THE FIRST ALTAR IN THE NEW WORLD_
‘And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean
beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the
altar,’ etc.
Genesis 8:20
Noa...
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21._And the Lord smelled a sweet savor _(282) Moses calls that by
which God was appeased, an odour of rest; as if he had said, the
sacrifice had been rightly offered. Yet nothing can be more absurd
th...
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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 THE LORD SMELLED A SWEET SAVOUR,.... Or a "savour of rest" e; he
was delighted and well pleased with his sacrifice, which was offered
up in the faith of the sacrifice of Christ; the apostle says,...
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And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I
will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the
imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither wil...
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Gen. 8:21, "And the Lord smelt a sweet savor, and the Lord said in his
heart, I will not," etc. It was not for the acceptableness of that
sacrifice that made God promise that he would no more curse th...
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_God smelled a sweet savour_ In the Hebrew it is a _savour of rest:_
that is, he accepted the person, and faith, and thank-offering of
Noah, and was well pleased therewith, and with these hopeful
begi...
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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...
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And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in His heart, I
will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the
imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I...
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The Promise of God...
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FOURTH PART
THE GENESIS OF THE NEW, WORLD-HISTORICAL, HUMAN RACE; OF THE CONTRAST
BETWEEN THE FORM OF SIN THAT NOW COMES IN, AND OF THE NEW FORM OF
PIETY; OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BLESSING OF SHEM...
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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...
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A SWEET SAVOUR:
_ Heb._ a savour of rest Or, satisfaction...
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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, tha...
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THE LORD SMELLED A SWEET SAVOUR, i.e. graciously accepted the person
and faith and praise offering of Noah, and was as well pleased
therewith as men use to be with a sweet smell; AND THE LORD SAID IN...
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NOAH OFFERS A SACRIFICE TO YAHWEH AND RECEIVES HIS PERSONAL COVENANT
(GENESIS 8:20)
Now we are approaching the covenants around which the whole account is
based and was the reason why it was preserved...
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THE LORD SAID IN HEART
The Third Dispensation: Human Government. Under Conscience, as in
Innocency, man utterly failed, and the judgment of the Flood marks the
end of the second dispensation and the...
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Genesis 8:21
These words were said by our Maker more than four thousand years ago,
and they have been true ever since, down to this very hour. There is
so much more bad than good in us that we should...
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Genesis 8:20. _And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD and took of
every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offering
on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour;_
A savour...
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Genesis 8:15. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark,
thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. Bring
forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_The Lord smelled a sweet savour_
THE SWEET SAVOUR
How important is it, that this truth shall be as a sun without a speck
before us! Hence the Spirit records that, when Noah shed the blood
which rep...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 8:20 Noah’s burnt offering is intended to
express gratitude for divine deliverance. It is also an act of
atonement. Despite the human tendency to sin, atonement through
sacrifi...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 8:20_
THE DEVOUT CONDUCT OF A GOOD MAN AFTER A SPECIAL DELIVERANCE FROM
EMINENT DANGER
I. That Noah gratefully acknowledged his deliverance as from God.
Tr...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 8:15-1
AND GOD SPAKE UNTO NOAH, SAYING, GO FORTH OF THE ARK. For which
command doubtless the patriarch waited, as he had done for
instructions to enter in (Genesis 7:11), "being re...
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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...
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smelled. Leviticus 1:9 Leviticus 1:13 Leviticus 1:17 Leviticus 26:31...
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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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And God smelled a sweet savour — Or a savour of rest from it, as it
is in the Hebrew. He was well pleased with Noah's pious zeal, and
these hopeful beginnings of the new world, as men are with fragran...
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Did God change His mind about never destroying the world again?
PROBLEM: According to this verse, after the flood, God promised,
“Nor will I again destroy every living thing.” Yet Peter foretells
the...