Genesis 6:4-9

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 6:1-22

With the passing of the centuries, the degeneration of the individual and the family became that of society. There had been intermixture between the descendants of Cain and those of Seth, resulting in the Nephilim. These were strong and godless men, ultimately swept away by the Flood. The description of life is a terrible one. "The wickedness of man was great" that describes the outward condition; "every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" that describes the... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 6:1-9

The Corrupted Earth Genesis 6:1-9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we approach the story of the flood, which God sent as a judgment upon the earth, which was corrupt before God and filled with violence, it will be most interesting for us to note several things relative to the fifth chapter of Genesis which gives us the story of the genealogy from Adam to Noah. We have worked out a little table to which we call your attention. Adam was 130 yrs. old when Seth was born Seth was 105 " " " Enos was born Adam... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 6:5-7

AN AWFUL SIGHT‘And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,’ etc. Genesis 6:5-Judges : I. ‘In these verses,’ it will be said, ‘ we see the results of the Fall. God made man innocent, and man fell when he lost this independent virtue, this innoceney of his own; as the first father lost it, all his descendants, by the decree of God or by some necessity of their relationship, lost it too; hence... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 6:6

HUMAN SIN AND DIVINE JUDGMENT‘And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart.’ Genesis 6:6 I. Human Sin.—(a) Sin had grown. This thought should be amplified, and special emphasis should be laid upon the fact that evil always has a tendency to grow. Every wicked man was once an innocent babe; the child committed its first conscious act of wrong-doing, perhaps a very little fault, but a real one. Then came another, then another. So it is easier to... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 6:8

A LONELY MAN OF GRACE‘Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.’ Genesis 6:8 I. The first fact that strikes us in the story of the Flood is this: that God, on account of the wickedness to which the world had grown, had made up His mind to sweep it away, once and for all. II. Out of the seed of Noah God had determined to people the earth once more with a race that would not be so wicked as the one He destroyed. III. Noah was told to go into the ark because his life was to be saved from the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:1-9

The History of and Genealogy of Noah (Genesis 5:1 a - Genesis 6:9 ) (TABLET III) This section commences with a list of ten patriarchs from Adam to Noah, and is followed by a passage where God makes a covenant with man after a particularly devastating example of man’s downward slide. As always in Genesis this covenant is the central point around which the passage is built. The passage ends with the colophon ‘these are the histories of Noah’. This mixture of genealogy and history is a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:1-22

“The Histories of the Sons of Noah” - The Flood (Genesis 6:9 b - Genesis 10:1 a) - TABLET IV It has been common practise among a large number of scholars to seek to split the flood narrative into different so-called ‘documents’. This has partly resulted from not comparing them closely enough with ancient writings as a whole and partly from over-enthusiasm for a theory. There is little real justification for it. Repetitiveness was endemic among ancient writings, and is therefore not a hint of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:4

‘The Nephilim were on the earth (or “in the land”) in those days, and also afterwards, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, men of renown.’ The position of this verse in the narrative (we might expect it before Genesis 6:3), and the fact that it is not connected by the usual ‘waw’ (‘and’) to the previous verse, suggests that this may be a word of explanation put in by the compiler (compare the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:5

‘Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the world (or “in the land”), and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.’ The occult activity, which had clearly become commonplace, emphasised the depths to which man had sunk, and it is quite clear that the menfolk had connived in it. Indeed without the illustration of verses 1-4 this description and what follows would be inexplicable. In the past men have murdered their kinsmen, and others, and have... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:6

‘And Yahweh regretted that he had made man on the earth (or “the men in the land”) and it grieved him to his heart.’ This anthropomorphism is a way of demonstrating God’s regret at the situation. It is because man has altered the situation that it arises. It is not that God is changing His mind because He thinks He has made a mistake. The change of mind comes because man has drastically changed, and He is grieved by it. He would have wished for anything but this. But having given man the... read more

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