創世記 8:21-22 CUNPTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 8:22

While the earth remaineth . Literally, as yet, all the days of the earth, i.e. henceforth, so long as the earth continues, עֹד expressing the ideas of repetition and continuance ( vide Genesis 8:12 ). Seed-time and harvest ,—from roots signifying to scatter, e.g. seed, and to cut off, specially grain; σπε ì ρμα και Ì θερισμο Ì ς ( LXX .)— and cold and heat ,— ψυ ì χος και Ì καυ ͂ μα ( LXX .)— and summer and winter . Properly the cutting off... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 8:15-22

- XXVII. The Ark Was Evacuated19. משׁפחה mı̂shpāchah, “kind, clan, family.” שׁפחה shı̂pchâh, “maid-servant; related: spread.”20. מזבח mı̂zbēach, “altar; related: slay animals, sacrifice.”21. עלה 'olâh, “whole burnt-offering.” That which goes up. “Step; related: go up.”Genesis 8:15-19The command to leave the ark is given and obeyed. As Noah did not enter, so neither does he leave the ark, without divine direction. “The fowl, the cattle, and the creeper.” Here, again, these three classes are... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 8:21

Genesis 8:21. 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 beginnings of the new world, as men are with agreeable and fragrant smells. I will not again curse the ground Hebrews I will not add to curse the ground any more. God had cursed the ground upon the first entrance of sin, Genesis 3:17; when he drowned it he added to that curse: but... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 8:22

Genesis 8:22. While the earth remaineth Here it is plainly intimated that the earth is not to remain always: it, and all the works therein, must be burned up. But as long as it doth remain, God here promises the course of nature shall not be discontinued; but God’s providence will carefully preserve the regular succession of times and seasons. Seed-time and harvest shall not cease To this we owe it that the world stands, and the wheel of nature keeps its track. See here how changeable the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:20-22

A new beginning (8:20-9:7)On returning to the earth now cleansed from sin, Noah first offered sacrifices to God. God’s promise not to destroy the earth by a flood again was not because he expected people to improve. He knew they would be as sinful as ever. If God always dealt with people as they deserved, such floods would occur constantly. But in his mercy God would allow sinful people to continue to live on his earth (20-22).With this new beginning, God gave Noah the same sorts of commands as... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 8:21

the LORD = Jehovah, in covenant-relationship. smelled a sweet savour. Hebrew "smelled a smell". Figure of speech Polyptoton ( App-6 ). savour. First occurance. Hebrew. nihoah, found only in this connection = rest, acquiescence. in His heart. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia , in condescension, and for emphasis. for = although, as in Exo 13:17 . 2 Samuel 23:5 .Psalms 49:18 . Habakkuk 3:17 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 8:22

While. Jehovah's covenant with Noah was unconditional in connection with the earth; as with Abraham, to give him the land (Genesis 15:0 ), and with David, to give him the throne (2 Samuel 7:0 ). and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton ( App-6 ) seven times in this verse, to emphasize the completeness and perfection of the Covenant ( App-10 ). Eight things named in 4 pairs of opposites. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 8:20-22

NOAH'S BURNT OFFERING"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 the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 8:21

Genesis 8:21. 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 of Noah's arose as acceptable to God, as sweet odours are to us. See Leviticus 26:31. And how it can be possible that the sacrifice and death of animals could be pleasing to God upon any other consideration than as his own appointment, and as sacrificed with a view to the great... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 8:21

21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour—The sacrifice offered by a righteous man like Noah in faith was acceptable as the most fragrant incense. Lord said in his heart—same as "I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth" (Isaiah 54:9). for—that is, "though the imagination is evil"; instead of inflicting another destructive flood, I shall spare them—to enjoy the blessings of grace, through a Saviour. read more