Genesis 6:11-15 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 6:11-12

The wickedness of that generation is here again spoken of, either as a foil to Noah's piety?he was just and perfect, when all the earth was corrupt; or as a further justification of God's resolution to destroy the world, which he was now about to communicate to his servant Noah. 1. All kinds of sin was found among them, for it is said (Gen. 6:11) that the earth was, (1.) Corrupt before God, that is, in the matters of God's worship; either they had other gods before him, or they worshipped him... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 6:13-21

Here it appears indeed that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. God's favour to him was plainly intimated in what he said of him, Gen. 6:8-10, where his name is mentioned five times in five lines, when once might have served to make the sense clear, as if the Holy Ghost took a pleasure in perpetuating his memory; but it appears much more in what he says to him in these verses?the informations and instructions here given him. I. God here makes Noah the man of his counsel, communicating to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:11

The earth also was corrupt before God ,.... That is, the inhabitants of the earth were corrupt in their lives and conversations; they were corrupt both in principle and practice, and did abominable things; and those corruptions were, according to Jarchi, uncleanness and idolatry; they were corrupt in the worship of God, worshipping the creature more, or besides the Creator; and they were corrupt in their manners and behaviour to one another, being guilty of fornication and adultery, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:12

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt ,.... This is spoken as if he had never looked upon it before; whereas his eyes are always upon the earth, and the inhabitants of it, and upon all their ways and works: but this denotes the special notice he took, and the particular observation he made upon the condition and circumstances the earth, and its inhabitants, were in. And this is remarked, as well as the particle "behold" is used, to denote the certainty of this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:13

And God said unto Noah ,.... This is a proof that he found favour in his eyes, since he spake to him, and told him what he had observed, and what he was determined to do, and gave him directions to make an ark for the security of himself and family, when he should destroy the world: the end of all flesh is come before me ; that is, it was determined to put an end to the lives of all men, and of all cattle, and fowl and creeping things on the earth; all which are included in the phrase,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:14

Make thee an ark of Gopher wood ,.... It is not called a ship, for it was not made for sailing to any distant parts, but an ark or chest, being like one, flat bottomed, and ridged and sloping upwards, and was made for floating on the waters for a little way. So Lucian F3 De Dea Syria. , and other Heathen writers, call it λαρναξ , "an ark" or "chest": this was made of "Gopher wood", which all the Targums, and the more ancient Rabbins, understand of cedar wood; some the box tree, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:15

And this is the fashion which thou shall make it of ,.... The form and size of it, its length, breadth, and height, as follows: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits ; which some interpret of geometrical cubits, each of which contained six ordinary cubits; others of sacred cubits, which were larger by an hand's breadth than the common cubit; but the general opinion of learned men now is, that they were... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:11

The earth also was corrupt - See the note on Genesis 6:5 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:13

I will destroy them with the earth - Not only the human race was to he destroyed, but all terrestrial animals, i.e. those which could not live in the waters. These must necessarily be destroyed when the whole surface of the earth was drowned. But destroying the earth may probably mean the alteration of its constitution. Dr. Woodward, in his natural history of the earth, has rendered it exceedingly probable that the whole terrestrial substance was amalgamated with the waters, after which the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:14

Make thee an ark - תבת tebath , a word which is used only to express this vessel, and that in which Moses was preserved, Exodus 2:3 , Exodus 2:5 . It signifies no more than our word vessel in its common acceptation - a hollow place capable of containing persons, goods, etc., without any particular reference to shape or form. Gopher wood - Some think the cedar is meant; others, the cypress. Bochart renders this probable, 1. From the appellation, supposing the Greek word ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 6:11-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 6:13-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:14

Group of Brands