Genesis 8:10-16 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:6-12

We have here an account of the spies which Noah sent forth to bring him intelligence from abroad, a raven and a dove. Observe here, I. That though God had told Noah particularly when the flood would come, even to a day (Gen. 7:4), yet he did not give him a particular account by revelation at what times, and by what steps, it should go away, 1. Because the knowledge of the former was necessary to his preparing the ark, and settling himself in it; but the knowledge of the latter would serve only... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:13-14

Here is, 1. The ground dry (Gen. 8:13), that is, all the water carried off it, which, upon the first day of the first month (a joyful new-year?s-day it was), Noah was himself an eye-witness of. He removed the covering of the ark, not the whole covering, but so much as would suffice to give him a prospect of the earth about it; and a most comfortable prospect he had. For behold, behold and wonder, the face of the ground was dry. Note, (1.) It is a great mercy to see ground about us. Noah was... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:15-19

Here is, I. Noah's dismission out of the ark, Gen. 8:15-17. Observe, 1. Noah did not stir till God bade him. As he had a command to go into the ark (Gen. 7:1), so, how tedious soever his confinement there was, he would wait for a command to go out of it again. Note, We must in all our ways acknowledge God, and set him before us in all our removes. Those only go under God's protection that follow God's direction and submit to his government. Those that steadily adhere to God's word as their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:10

And he stayed yet other seven days ,.... As he had stayed seven days between the sending out of the raven and the dove, so he stayed seven days more after he had sent out the dove, and it returned to him, waiting patiently for his deliverance, and the signs of it; though he could have been glad to have known its near approach, for which he made the experiments be did: and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark ; very probably the selfsame dove he had sent out before. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:11

And the dove came in to him in the evening ,.... It having been out all day delighting itself in a free air, and perching upon the trees, but yet not finding sufficient food, or a proper lodging, it returned to Noah at the evening for food and dwelling in the ark: and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off : which might easily be done, and even an "olive branch", as the word sometimes signifies, and is by some F16 עלה זית "ramum olivae", V. L. so Ainsworth, see Neh.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:12

And he stayed yet other seven days ,.... After the dove had returned: and sent forth the dove ; the same dove again: which returned not again unto him any more : the earth being dry, it found rest for the sole of its feet, sufficient food to eat, and a proper place for its habitation; and liking to be at liberty, and in the open air, chose not to return to the ark, even though its mate was there: of those birds sent out, the Heathen writers make mention: Abydenus says F19 Apud... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:13

And it came to pass, in the six hundred and first year ,.... Of Noah's life, and so the Septuagint adds, in the first month: the first day of the month ; so that it was the first day of the year, New Year's Day, and a joyful one it was to Noah and his family, when they saw dry ground; which they had not seen for above ten months: according to R. Joshua, this was the month Nisan, which was the first month with the Jews on sacred accounts; but according to R. Eliezer it was the month of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:14

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month ,.... This was the month Marchesvan, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of our October, and part of our November; though according to Bishop Usher F25 Ut supra. (Annales Vet. Test. p. 4.) , this day was Friday the eighteenth of December, A. M. 1657; it was on the seventeenth of this month that Noah went into the ark, Genesis 7:11 so that be was in it twelve months and ten days, according to a solar... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:15

And God spake unto Noah, saying ,.... Whether in a dream or vision, or by an articulate voice, appearing in an human form, or by an impulse on his mind, is not certain; however, the Lord spoke so to him, that he heard him and understood him: it was, no doubt, very rejoicing to him, since he had not heard his voice for a year or more, at least that we read of; and what he said to him was as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:16

Go forth of the ark ,.... Though the earth was dry and fit to be inhabited, yet be would not go out without orders, as he had to go in; which he waited for before he would, and now he has them: thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives, with thee : the Jewish writers F26 Pirke Eliezer, c. 23. Jarchi in loc. observe, that the manner of Noah and his family coming out of the ark is different from that of their going into it: when they went into it then went the men by... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:6-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:13-14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:15-19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:16

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