genesis-9:20-21-nasb

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 9:21

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken ,.... Either not being acquainted with the strength of it, as is thought by many; or having been used to weaker liquor, as water; or through the infirmity of his age; however, he was overtaken with it, and which is recorded, not to disgrace him, but to caution men against the evil of intemperance, as well as to encourage repenting sinners to expect pardon: and this shows that the best of men are not exempted from sin, nor secure from falling; and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 9:20

Noah began to be a husbandman - האדמה איש ish haadamah , A man of the ground, a farmer; by his beginning to be a husbandman we are to understand his recommencing his agricultural operations, which undoubtedly he had carried on for six hundred years before, but this had been interrupted by the flood. And the transaction here mentioned might have occurred many years posterior to the deluge, even after Canaan was born and grown up, for the date of it is not fixed in the text. The word... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 9:21

He drank of the wine, etc. - It is very probable that this was the first time the wine was cultivated; and it is as probable that the strength or intoxicating power of the expressed juice was never before known. Noah, therefore, might have drunk it at this time without the least blame, as he knew not till this trial the effects it would produce. I once knew a case which I believe to be perfectly parallel. A person who had scarcely ever heard of cider, and whose beverage through his whole... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 9:20

Verse 20 20.And Noah began to be an husbandman. I do not so explain. the words, as if he then, for the first time, began to give his attention to the cultivation of the fields; but, (in my opinion,) Moses rather intimates, that Noah, with a collected mind, though now an old man, returned to the culture of the fields, and to his former labors. It is, however, uncertain whether he had been a vine-dresser or not. It is commonly believed that wine was not in use before that time. And this opinion... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:18-29

The threefold distribution of the human race —into the Shemitic, Hamitic, and Japhetic families. The fall of Noah was through wine; not, indeed, a forbidden product of the earth, but, like the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, representing a tremendous responsibility . I. THE FERTILITY OF SIN . It was out of drunkenness that the widespread curse of the Hamitic nations came forth. And the drunkenness is closely connected with other sins— What a picture of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:20

And Noah began to be an husbandman . Literally, a man of the ground . Vir terroe (Vulgate); α ̓ ì νθρωπος γεωργο Ì ς γη ͂ ς ( LXX .); Chald; נְּבַר פָלַח בְּאַרְעָא = vir colens terram; agriculturae dediturus . Cf. Joshua 5:4 , "a man of war;" 2 Samuel 16:7 , "a man of blood;" Genesis 46:32 , "a man of cattle;" Exodus 4:10 , "a man of words." And he planted a vineyard. So Murphy, Wordsworth, Kalisch. Keil, Delitzsch, and Lange regard ish ha'... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:20-29

The future unveiled. I. A PAGE FROM HUMAN HISTORY . The prominent figure an old man—always an object of interest, as one who has passed through life's vicissitudes, and worthy of peculiar honor, especially if found walking in the paths of righteousness and peace; an old saint who had long been distinguished for the elevation of his piety, who had long maintained his fidelity to God in the midst of evil times, who had just enjoyed a special deliverance at the hand of God, and who up... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:21

And he drank of the wine . יַיִן ; "perhaps so called from bubbling up and fermenting;" connected with יָוַן (Gesenius). Though the first mention of wine in Scripture, it is scarcely probable that the natural process of fermentation for so many centuries escaped the notice of the enterprising Cainites, or even of the Sethites; that, "though grapes had been in use before this, wine had not been extracted from them" (Murphy); or that Noah was unacquainted with the nature and effects of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 9:18-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 9:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 9:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 9:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 9:21

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 9:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:18-29

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:20-29

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:21

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