Genesis 9:27-29 NIV

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 9:27

Genesis 9:27. God shall enlarge, &c.— Some render the word (it is so rendered in the margin of our Bibles) God shall persuade, or allure, Japheth, so that he shall come over to the true religion, and dwell in the tents of Shem. But the best critics in the language have remarked, besides other reasons, that they who translate the word by persuade, or allure, did not consider that when it is so taken, it is used in a bad sense, and governs an accusative case, not a dative, as in this place.... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 9:29

Genesis 9:29. And all the days of Noah, &c.— "It is strange," Saurin remarks, "that the torrent of interpreters should suppose, that Noah was one hundred and twenty years building the ark, when the scripture gives no intimation to that purpose, but sufficient reason to believe, that he was not near so long as is imagined. It is plain from scripture, that he was five hundred years old, when he beget Shem, Ham, and Japheth, ch. Genesis 5:32. and that, when he received the command for building... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 9:27

27. God shall enlarge Japheth—pointing to a vast increase in posterity and possessions. Accordingly his descendants have been the most active and enterprising, spread over the best and largest portion of the world, all Europe and a considerable part of Asia. he shall dwell in the tents of Shem—a prophecy being fulfilled at the present day, as in India British Government is established and the Anglo-Saxons being in the ascendancy from Europe to India, from India over the American continent. What... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 9:9-29

D. What became of Noah 6:9-9:29The Lord destroyed the corrupt, violent human race and deluged its world, but He used righteous Noah to preserve life and establish a new world after the Flood."Noah’s experience presents decisively the author’s assertion that the Lord judges human sin but provides a means for perpetuating the creation blessing (Genesis 1:26-28) and the salvation hope for an elect seed (Genesis 3:15). The recurring theme of blessing, threatened by sin but preserved by divine... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 9:18-29

3. The curse on Canaan 9:18-29This pericope presents the characteristics of the three branches of the human family that grew out of Noah. Moses stressed the themes of blessing and cursing. God cursed Canaan with slavery because Ham showed disrespect toward Noah whereas He blessed Shem and Japheth for their regard for their father’s vulnerable condition."The world seems all set for a new start. The slate has been wiped clean, and we hope that the mistakes of the antediluvians will not be... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 9:25-27

This oracle, the first time Moses recorded a human uttering a curse, is a prophecy announcing divine judgment on Canaan’s descendants for their sin that had its seed in Ham’s act. Noah, as a prophet, announced the future of this grandson’s descendants (cf. Genesis 49; Deuteronomy 33; et al.)."For his breach of the family, his [Ham’s] own family would falter." [Note: Kidner, p. 104.] The Canaanites became known for their shameless depravity in sexual matters. [Note: See Charles Pfeiffer, Ras... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 9:1-29

The Divine Blessing and Covenant. Noah and the Vine. The Curse of Canaan1-7. The primeval benediction of man (Genesis 1:28) is now repeated and enlarged. Animal food is allowed (cp. Genesis 1:29), but blood is forbidden. The blood makes the life manifest, as it were, to our senses, and the life belongs to God, and must, therefore, be offered to Him.5, 6. The ground of the sacredness of human life here is the existence of the divine image in man. It is not conceived as being wholly destroyed by... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 9:27

(27) God shall enlarge Japheth.—First, the Deity is here Elohim, following upon Jehovah in the preceding verse, and that with extraordinary exactness. Jehovah has never been the special name of the Deity worshipped by the race of Japheth, though doubtless it is the Greek Zeus and the Latin Jove. But it soon became the proper title of God in covenant with the race of Shem. It is plainly impossible to divide this most ancient poem into Elohistic and Jehovistic sections, and the theory, however... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 9:29

(29) All the days of Noah.—While Noah attained to the same age as the antediluvian patriarchs, 950 years, human life was fast diminishing. The whole life-time of Shem was 600 years; that of Peleg, a few generations afterwards, only 239. After him only one man, Terah, is described as living more than 200 years, and of his age there is great doubt. (See Note on Genesis 11:32.) Thus before Shem’s death the age of man was rapidly shortening, and things were settling down to that condition in which... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 9:1-29

The Bow in the Cloud Genesis 9:11 In the midst of wrath God remembered mercy. Upon the subsidence of the Flood and the restoration of the family of Noah to their accustomed avocations, the great Ruler and Lord graciously renewed to the human race the expression of His favour. I. The Covenant was established between, on the one hand, the Lord Himself; on the other hand, the sons of men, represented in the person of Noah. ( a ) Its occasion. It was after the vindication of Divine justice and... read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 9:27

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 9:29

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 9:27

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 9:9-29

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 9:18-29

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 9:25-27

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 9:1-29

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 9:27

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 9:29

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 9:1-29

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