Genesis 6:9-13 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 6:8-10

We have here Noah distinguished from the rest of the world, and a peculiar mark of honour put upon him. 1. When God was displeased with the rest of the world, he favoured Noah: But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, Gen. 6:8. This vindicates God's justice in his displeasure against the world, and shows that he had strictly examined the character of every person in it before he pronounced it universally corrupt; for, there being one good man, he found him out, and smiled upon him. It... read more

Matthew Henry

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 6:9

These are the generations of Noah ,.... Or this is the account of his posterity, of the persons that were generated by him, that sprung from him, and peopled the earth after the flood, who are mentioned in the next verse, what follows being to be put in a parenthesis; as the genealogy of Adam is carried on from Adam to Noah, Genesis 5:1 so the old world ending at the flood, the genealogy of the new world begins with Noah: though Aben Ezra and Ben Gersome interpret the word "events", things... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:10

And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. When he was five hundred years of age, and before the flood came upon the earth; and when it was so wicked as is next described: of these sons of his, and of the order in which they are placed; see Gill on Genesis 5:32 . 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

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 6:8-10

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 6:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 6:10

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

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

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

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