Genesis 6:12-13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 6:9-22

- Section VI - The Deluge- XXIII. The Ark9. דור dôr “age, time from birth to death,” applied either to an individual or the whole contemporary race, running parallel with some leading individual. Hence, the “race” or “generation” living during that time.14. תבה tēbâh “chest, ark.” It is used only of this vessel of Noah’s construction, and of the little vessel in which Moses was put Exodus 2:3, Exodus 2:5. The root, according to Furst, means “to be hollow.” אבה 'ēbeh a cognate word,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 6:13

Genesis 6:13. The end, or ruin, of all flesh is come before me Is approaching, is at the very door. It is come in my purpose and decree, and shall as certainly take place, as if it were come already, in what manner soever vain men may flatter themselves with hopes of longer impunity. I will destroy them with the earth; but make thee an ark I will take care to preserve thee alive. This ark was like the hulk of a ship, fitted not to sail upon the waters, but to float, waiting for their... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:9-22

The flood (6:9-8:19)Amid the corruption, there was one man, Noah, who remained faithful to God. Therefore, God promised to preserve Noah, along with his family, so that when the former evil race had been destroyed, he could use Noah and his family to build a new people (9-12; cf. Hebrews 11:7; 2 Peter 2:4-5; 2 Peter 2:4-5).God’s means of destruction was a great flood. Besides preserving Noah and his family, God preserved a pair of each kind of animals in the region, thereby helping to maintain... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 6:12

all flesh. Noah's family the only exception. The Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 6:13

God = the Creator in connection with the two beasts for preservation (verses: Genesis 6:13 , Genesis 6:22 , Genesis 6:9 ). Jehovah in Genesis 7:1 , in connection with the seven clean for sacrifice. See note on Genesis 6:19 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:9-12

"These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations; Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth."Here once more is the great divisional marker in Genesis, the Hebrew word, [~toledowth]; and, as in all other instances of the use of it, there is... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:13

JUDGMENT OF THE FLOOD ANNOUNCED"And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before men; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."The universality of the destruction is apparent in the words "end of all flesh." The labors of skeptics to make some local event out of the destruction announced here are frustrated by the appearance of a great and universal flood in the mythologies of all nations, even those of American Indians. If... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 6:12

Genesis 6:12. God looked upon the earth, &c.— God observing that his patience was to no effect, and that the hundred and twenty years, which we may now suppose near expiring, produced no fruits of repentance, resolved to destroy that incorrigible race. "The patience of God," says Archbishop Tillotson, "did not expire till he saw that the wickedness of man was grown great, and that all flesh had corrupted his way; nor till it was necessary to drown the world to cleanse it, and to destroy... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 6:13

13. And God said unto Noah—How startling must have been the announcement of the threatened destruction! There was no outward indication of it. The course of nature and experience seemed against the probability of its occurrence. The public opinion of mankind would ridicule it. The whole world would be ranged against him. Yet, persuaded the communication was from God, through faith ( :-), he set about preparing the means for preserving himself and family from the impending calamity. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 6:9-12

This is the first time the important words "righteous" and "blameless" appear in the Bible. "The same explanation for Enoch’s rescue from death (’he walked with God’) is made the basis for Noah’s rescue from death in the Flood: ’he walked with God’ (Genesis 6:9). Thus in the story of Noah and the Flood, the author is able to repeat the lesson of Enoch: life comes through ’walking with God.’" [Note: Sailhamer, The Pentateuch . . ., p. 119.] "Noah is depicted as Adam redivivus (revived). He is... read more

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