Genesis 8:3-4 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:1-3

Here is, I. An act of God's grace: God remembered Noah and every living thing. This is an expression after the manner of men; for not any of his creatures (Luke 12:6), much less any of his people, are forgotten of God, Isa. 49:15, 16. But, 1. The whole race of mankind, except Noah and his family, was now extinguished, and driven into the land of forgetfulness, to be remembered no more; so that God's remembering Noah was the return of his mercy to mankind, of whom he would not make a full end.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:4-5

Here we have the effects and evidences of the ebbing of the waters. 1. The ark rested. This was some satisfaction to Noah, to feel the house he was in upon firm ground, and no longer movable. It rested upon a mountain, whither it was directed, not by Noah's prudence (he did not steer it), but by the wise and gracious providence of God, that it might rest the sooner. Note, God has times and places of rest for his people after their tossings; and many a time he provides for their seasonable and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:3

And the waters returned from off the earth continually ,.... Or "going and returning" F19 הלוך ושוב , "eundo et redeundo", Pagninus, Montanus. ; they went off from the earth, and returned to their proper places appointed for them; some were dried up by the wind, and exhaled by the sun into the air: and others returned to their channels and cavities in the earth, or soaked into it: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days, the waters were abated ; or began to abate, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:4

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month ,.... That is, five months after the flood began, and when the waters began to decrease; for this is not the seventh month of the flood, but of the year, which being reckoned from Tisri, or the autumnal equinox, must be the month Nisan, which answers to part of our March, and part of April; and so the Targum of Jonathan explains it,"this is the month Nisan;'but Jarchi makes it to be the month Sivan, which answers to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 8:4

The mountains of Ararat - That Ararat was a mountain of Armenia is almost universally agreed. What is commonly thought to be the Ararat of the Scriptures, has been visited by many travelers, and on it there are several monasteries. For a long time the world has been amused with reports that the remains of the ark were still visible there; but Mr. Tournefort, a famous French naturalist, who was on the spot, assures us that nothing of the kind is there to be seen. As there is a great chain of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 8:3

Verse 3 3.And after the end of the hundred and fifty days. Some think that the whole time, from the beginning of the deluge to the abatement of the waters, is here noted; and thus they include the forty days in which Moses relates that there was continued rain. But I make this distinction, that until the fortieth day, the waters rose gradually by fresh additions; then that they remained nearly in the same state for one hundred and fifty days; for both computations make the period a little more... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 8:1-5

Grace and providence. The powers of material nature are obedient servants of God, and those who are the objects of his regard, remembered by him, are safely kept in the midst of the world's changes. "All things work together for their good." There is an inner circle of special providence in which the family of God, with those whose existence is bound up in it, is under the eye of the heavenly Father, and in the hollow of his hand. "And the ark rested" ( Genesis 8:4 ). We speak of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 8:3

And the waters returned from off the earth continually . Literally, going and returning . "More and more" (Gesenius). The first verb expresses the continuance and self-increasing state of the action involved in the second; cf. Genesis 26:13 ; 1 Samuel 6:12 ; 2 Kings 2:11 (Furst). Gradually (Murphy, Ewald). The expression "denotes the turning-point after the waters had become calm" ( T . Lewis). May it not be an attempt to represent the undulatory motion of the waves in an ebbing... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 8:4

And the ark rested. Not stopped sailing or floating, got becalmed, and remained suspended over (Kitto's 'Cyclop.,' art. Ararat), but actually grounded and settled on (Tayler Lewis) the place indicated by עַל (cf. Genesis 8:9 ; also Exodus 10:14 ; Numbers 10:36 ; Numbers 11:25 , Numbers 11:26 ; Isaiah 11:2 ). In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month. I .e. exactly 150 days from the commencement of the forty days' rain, reckoning thirty days to a month,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 8:4-18

Mount Ararat, or the landing of the ark. That disembarkment on the mountain heights of Ararat was an emblem of another landing which shall yet take place, when the great gospel ship of the Christian Church shall plant its living freight of redeemed souls upon the hills of heaven. Everything that Mount Ararat witnessed on that eventful day will yet be more conspicuously displayed in the sight of God's believing people who shall be counted worthy of eternal life. I. SIN PUNISHED . Mount... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:1-3

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:4-5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 8:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 8:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 8:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 8:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 8:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 8:4-18

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