John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 9:20
And Noah began to be an husbandman ,.... Or "a man of the earth" F3 איש האדמה "vir terrie", Montanus. , not lord of it, as Jarchi, though he was, but a tiller of the earth, as he had been before the flood, and now began to be again; he returned to his old employment, and which perhaps he improved, having invented, as the Jews F4 Zohar, apud Hottinger, Smegma Oriental. p. 253. say, instruments of husbandry; it may be, the use of the plough, which made the tillage of the ground... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 9:18-23
Here is, I. Noah's family and employment. The names of his sons are again mentioned (Gen. 9:18, 19) as those from whom the whole earth was overspread, by which it appears that Noah, after the flood, had no more children: all the world came from these three. Note, God, when he pleases, can make a little one to become a thousand, and greatly increase the latter end of those whose beginning was small. Such are the power and efficacy of a divine blessing. The business Noah applied himself to was... read more