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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
plura...
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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 7:13; Genesis 7:11 and Genesis 7:12...
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DESTROY. wipe off, blot out....
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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: 14
GOD’S DETERMINATION TO DESTROY MAN
Genesis 6:6. _And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will
destroy man, whom...
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I WILL DESTROY BOTH MAN AND BEAST, &C.— God made the beasts for the
service and delight of man; they therefore must perish with him, as
with him they became subject to vanity and abuse. And God might...
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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 THE LORD SAID, I WILL DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE CREATED FROM THE
FACE OF THE EARTH; BOTH MAN, AND BEAST, AND THE CREEPING THING, AND
THE FOWLS OF THE AIR; FOR IT REPENTETH ME THAT I HAVE MADE THEM....
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6:7 destroy (k-6) Lit. 'blot,' or 'wipe out.' so ch. 7.4,23....
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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’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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I WILL DESTROY. — Heb., _delete, rub out._
FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH. — Heb., _the_ adâmâh_,_ the tilled
ground which man had subdued and cultivated.
BOTH MAN, AND BEAST. — Heb., _from man unto cat...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה אֶמְחֶ֨ה אֶת ־הָ
אָדָ֤ם אֲשֶׁר ־בָּרָ֨אתִי֙ מֵ עַל֙
פְּנֵ֣י הָֽ אֲדָמָ֔ה...
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THE FLOOD
Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesis 9:1
THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory
of the primeval world was the Flood. There is every reas...
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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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And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the
face of the earth; both man, and (h) beast, and the creeping thing,
and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made th...
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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 V...
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7._And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the
face of the earth, both man and beast, etc_. He again introduces God
as deliberating, in order that we may the better know that 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 SAID,.... Not to the angels, nor to Noah, but within
himself, on observing to what a height the sin of man had got, and
what a spread it made on the earth:
I WILL DESTROY MAN, WHOM I HAV...
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And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the
face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and
the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them....
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_I will destroy man_ The original word is very significant, _I will
wipe off man; from off the earth_ As dirt is wiped off from a place
which should be clean, and thrown to the dunghill. Or, _I will b...
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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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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 mixtur...
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BOTH MAN AND BEAST:
_ Heb._ from man unto beast...
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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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BOTH MAN AND BEAST; for as the beasts were made for man's use and
service, so they are destroyed for man's punishment, and to discover
the malignity of sin, and God's deep abhorrency thereof, by destr...
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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 translatio...
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Genesis 6:7 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) destroy H4229 (H8799) man
H120 created H1254 (H8804) face H6440 earth H127 man H120 and H5704
beast H929 thing H7431 birds H5775 air H8064 sorry H5162 (H8738)...
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‘So Yahweh said, “I will blot out these men (or mankind) whom I
have created from the face of the ground, men (mankind) and beasts and
creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have...
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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 o...
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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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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 6:6 The Hebrew word for REGRETTED is
sometimes translated “repent” and sometimes as “feel sorrow”
or “be grieved.” God is GRIEVED over his creation, which he at
first saw as ve...
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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 J...
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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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I will. Psalms 24:1 Psalms 24:2 Psalms 37:20 Proverbs 10:27 Proverbs
16:4 both man, and beast. Heb. from man unto beast. Jeremiah 4:22
Jeremiah 12:3 Jeremiah 12:4 Hosea 4:3...
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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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I will destroy man — The original word is very significant. I will
wipe off man from off the earth; as dirt is wiped off from a place
which should be clean, and thrown to the dunghill. Or, I will blot...