Genesis 8:4

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 8:4

"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat."For the duration of the Flood, see Genesis 8:14."Upon the mountains of Ararat ..." This designates, not a particular peak, but a district, described by Skinner thus: "It is the province of Armenia lying northeast of Lake Van, including the fertile plain watered by the Araxes, on the right (southwest) side of which Mount Massis rises."[6] The area is that which lies along the alluvial... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 8:4

Genesis 8:4. The ark rested in the seventh month.— Of the year; that is, not of the flood, as appears from Genesis 8:13-14. as well as from Gen 8:11 of the former chapter: on the tenth month of the year the tops of the mountains were seen, Genesis 8:5. After tossing on the billows, at last the ark rests on Ararat. Note; Though the church suffer long in this tempestuous world, it shall rest at last upon the mount of God. It was two months and upwards after they felt ground, before the mountains... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 8:4

4. seventh month—of the year—not of the flood—which lasted only five months. rested—evidently indicating a calm and gentle motion. upon the mountains of Ararat—or Armenia, as the word is rendered (2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38). The mountain which tradition points to as the one on which the ark rested is now called Ara Dagh, the "finger mountain." Its summit consists of two peaks, the higher of which is 17,750 feet and the other 13,420 above the level of the sea. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 8:1-5

When Moses wrote that God remembered someone (Genesis 8:1), he meant God extended mercy to him or her by delivering that person from death (here; cf. Genesis 19:29) or from barrenness (Genesis 30:22). [Note: Hamilton, p. 299.] God’s rescue of Noah foreshadows His deliverance of Israel in the Exodus (cf. Genesis 8:13-14 and Exodus 2:24; Exodus 14:21). [Note: Sailhamer, The Pentateuch . . ., p. 127; idem, "Genesis," p. 89.] "’Ararat,’ known as ancient Urartu in Assyrian records, was an extensive... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 8:1-22

The Flood (continued)4. The mountains of Ararat] Ararat is the Assyrian ’Urardhu,’ the country round Lake Van, in what is now called Armenia; but the word also signifies ’highlands,’ and perhaps it is a general expression for the hilly country which lay to the N. of Assyria. Mt. Masis, now called Mt. Ararat (a peak 17,000 ft. high), is not meant here. 11. The olive leaf indicated that the tree was above water, and as the olive does not grow at a great elevation, the inference was that the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 8:4

(4) The seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month.—As the months had each thirty days (see Note on Genesis 8:14), this makes exactly 150 days (see Genesis 7:11). The seventh civil month would be Abib; and the Speaker’s Commentary notices the following remarkable coincidences:—“On the 17th day of Abib the ark rested on Mount Ararat; on the 17th day of Abib the Israelites passed over the Red Sea; on the 17th day of Abib, Christ, our Lord, rose again from the dead.”Ararat.—If in Genesis... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 8:1-22

Noah Saved in the Ark Genesis 8:1-22 Traditions of the Flood linger among all branches of the human race except the black. Remember from the Greek story of Deucalion, when Zeus had resolved to destroy mankind, after the treatment he had received from Lycaon, Deucalion built an ark in which he and his wife Pyrrha floated during the nine days' flood which destroyed Greece. When the waters subsided, Deucalion's ark rested on Mount Parnassus. Ten buildings the size of Solomon's temple could have... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:1-22

THE FLOODGenesis 5:1-32; Genesis 6:1-22; Genesis 7:1-24; Genesis 8:1-22; Genesis 9:1-29THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was the Flood. There is every reason to believe that this catastrophe was co-extensive with the human population of the world. In every branch of the human family traditions of the event are found. These traditions need not be recited, though some of them bear a remarkable likeness to the Biblical story, while others... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Genesis 8:1-22

CHAPTER 8 Noah Remembered 1. Noah remembered (Genesis 8:1-3 ) 2. The ark resting (Genesis 8:4-5 ) 3. The raven sent forth (Genesis 8:6-7 ) 4. The sending forth of the dove (Genesis 8:8-12 ) 5. The waters dried up (Genesis 8:13-14 ) 6. The command to leave the ark (Genesis 8:15-17 ) 7. Noah’s obedience (Genesis 8:18-19 ) 8. The altar and the covenant (Genesis 8:20-22 ) Especially instructive are Genesis 8:6-12 in our chapter. Noah opened the window at the end of forty days, and... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Genesis 8:4

8:4 And the ark rested in the {c} seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.(c) Part of September and part of October. read more

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