Genesis 7:4

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 7:1-24

Genesis 6:5 to Genesis 9:17 . The Flood.— This section has been very skilfully composed from both J and P. There are numerous repetitions: Genesis 6:5-Ruth : and Genesis 6:12 f.; Genesis 7:7-1 Samuel : and Genesis 7:13-Nehemiah :; Genesis 7:11 and Genesis 7:12; Genesis 7:17 and Genesis 7:18 f.; Genesis 7:21 and Genesis 7:23; Genesis 8:2 a and Genesis 8:2 b. There are also differences of representation. According to Genesis 6:19 f., Genesis 7:15 f., the animals go in by pairs; according to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 7:4

Yet seven days, or, after seven days, the Hebrew Lamed being put for after, as it is Exodus 16:1; Psalms 19:3; Jeremiah 41:4. Or, within seven days, which time God allowed to the world as a further space of repentance, whereof therefore it is probable Noah gave them notice; and it is not unlikely that many of them who slighted the threatening when it was at one hundred and twenty years distance, now hearing a second threatening, and considering the nearness of their danger, might be more... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 7:1-10

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 7:1. Righteous.] The radical notion of this important word in Hebrew is, by Gesenius and Davies, affirmed to be that of “straightness,” the quality of going evenly and directly to the end aimed at; but, by Fürst, is taken to be “firmness, hardness, hence strength, victoriousness.” Either conception is interesting, and well fitted to give food for reflection. It is, perhaps, still more significant that Fürst regards the adjective tzad-diq as derived from the PIEL... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 7:1-24

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 of which there is no appearance; he has commanded him to build a strange vessel for no apparent purpose; he has told him that one hundred and twenty years of toil must elapse before the vessel can be of any use to him. And yet, in the face of all these difficulties, Noah forms and keeps his... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 7:1-24

Chapter 7And so the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all of your house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Now of the clean beast thou shalt take by sevens, male with his female ( Genesis 7:1-2 ):So seven pair of the clean beasts.and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of the fowls of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep the seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For in seven days, I will cause it to rain upon... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 7:1-24

Genesis 7:2 ; Genesis 7:8 . Clean beasts by sevens. Male and female, reserving one for sacrifice. God’s special care is over man and beast, and over the preservation of religion. Genesis 7:11. The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. The Lord by a cause known to himself, increased the powers of gravitation, by which the seas rushed on the land in tides which augmented till the mountains were washed, and till the latent rocks presented their shaggy and contour... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 7:4

Genesis 7:4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth.The Divine threat of destructionI. VERY SOON TO BE EXECUTED. II. VERY MERCIFUL IN ITS COMMENCEMENT. III. VERY TERRIBLE IN ITS DESTRUCTION. “And every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.” 1. The destruction was determined. 2. The destruction was universal. 3. The destruction was piteous. IV. VERY SIGNIFICANT IN ITS INDICATION. The Fatherhood of God is not incompatible with the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 7:4

Gen 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. Ver. 4. For yet seven days, &c. ] God could have destroyed them by water, or otherwise, in a far shorter space: But, of his free grace, he gives them yet seven days further, and then rains upon the earth forty days, as, not willing that any should "eternally perish, but that all should come to... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 7:4

For: Genesis 7:10, Genesis 2:5, Genesis 6:3, Genesis 8:10, Genesis 8:12, Genesis 29:27, Genesis 29:28, Job 28:25, Job 36:27-Jonah :, Job 37:11, Job 37:12, Amos 4:7 forty days: Genesis 7:12, Genesis 7:17 and every: Genesis 7:21-Isaiah :, Genesis 6:17 destroy: Heb. blot out, Genesis 7:21, Genesis 7:23, Genesis 6:7, Genesis 6:13, Genesis 6:17, Exodus 32:32, Exodus 32:33, Job 22:16, Psalms 69:28, Revelation 3:5 Reciprocal: Genesis 40:13 - within Deuteronomy 6:15 - destroy Job 24:1 - not see... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 7:4

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.Yet seven days and I will cause it to rain — It shall be seven days yet before I do it, After the120 years were expired, God grants them a reprieve of seven days longer, both to shew how slow he is to anger, and to give them some farther space for repentance. But all in vain; these seven days were trifled away... read more