And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years . I .e. to the fifty-eighth year of the life of Abram, and was thus in all probability a witness of the building of the tower of Babel, and of the consequent dispersion of mankind. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died . Tuch, Bleek, and Colenso connect these verses with Genesis 9:17 , as the proper continuation of the Elohist's work. HOMILETICS read more
- XXX. The Prophecy of Noah18. כנען kena‛an, “Kena‘an, bowed down.”19. נפץ nāpats, “break, scatter, spread.” פוּץ pûts, “break, scatter, flow.”20. כרם kerem, “orchard, vineyard.”21. יין yayı̂n, “wine; related: ferment.”After the blessing on the new heads of the human race has been pronounced, and the covenant with them renewed, we are prepared for a new development of human action. This appears, however, in the form of an event which is itself a meet preliminary to the subsequent stage of... read more
Genesis 9:27. God shall enlarge Japheth Most of the inhabitants of Europe, termed in the next chapter, the isles of the Gentiles, and those of the northern parts of Asia, were descended from Japheth; and if, as is generally supposed, America was peopled from the north-east of Asia, the original inhabitants of that country also were his offspring. And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem His seed shall be so numerous, and so victorious, that they shall be masters of the tents of Shem.... read more
Genesis 9:28. Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years Which period, as the Jews observe, reaches to the fifty-eighth year of Abraham’s age. So that we need be under no difficulty in accounting for the transmission of the original revelation made to Adam, and of other branches of divine truth, from the beginning of the world to the time of Abraham. Noah received these from his parents, who had the account from Adam’s own mouth, and transmitted it to Abraham. And its... read more
Genesis 9:29. All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years Here the clause, and he begat sons and daughters, is omitted, whence we may infer that he had no more than the three sons already mentioned. read more
Noah and his sons (9:18-29)On one occasion Noah brought shame upon himself through becoming drunk. But God’s condemnation was concerned more with Noah’s son Ham, and particularly his grandson Canaan who tried to add to Noah’s disgrace (18-23). God announced a curse on the descendants of Ham who would come through Canaan, though not on Ham’s other descendants. The descendants of Canaan would have their land taken from them by the descendants of Shem (the nation Israel) and they themselves would... read more
enlarge Japheth. Figure of speech Paronomasia ( App-6 ). Yapht le-yephth. Fulfillment in increase of Western nations. dwell: as in a Tabernacle (Genesis 3:24 , which see), i.e. worship the God of Shem: Israel's God, Hebrew. shakan. See App-40 . Gentiles to be blessed in Shem. The Eunuch (Ham) Acts 8:0 . Saul (Shem) Acts 9:0 . Cornelius (Japheth) Acts 10:0 . See note on Genesis 11:9 . tents. Hebrew. 'ohel ( App-40 ). Probably plural of majesty, the Great Tent or Tabernacle of Shem, who... read more
"And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be Jehovah the God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.""Cursed be Canaan ..." What Cain was to the antediluvian world, Canaan was to the world after the flood. He was the ancestor of the Canaanites who preceded Israel in the land of Palestine, and the preoccupation of that entire Canaanite... read more
"And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died."Since Abraham was born about 292 years after the Flood, it appears that, for 58 years, Noah was a contemporary of Abraham!Lessons from this narrative are many:Temptation and sin are of the greatest danger immediately following victory. Satan assaults the soul with the most vigorous efforts both at the beginning of life (or a career), and at the end of it.... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:27
God . Elohim . If Genesis 9:18-27 are Jehovistic (Tuch, Bleek, Colenso, et alii ) , why Elohim? Is this a proof that the Jehovistic document was revised by the Elohistic author, as the presence of Jehovah in any so-called Elohistic section is regarded as an interpolation by the supplementer? To obviate this inference Davidson assigns Genesis 9:20-27 to his redactor. But the change of name is sufficiently explained when we remember that "Jehovah, as such, never was the God of... read more