Genesis 6:5-7

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 6:5

GOD = Jehovah. App-4 . wickedness = lewdness, moral depravity. App-44 . great = multiplied. Very emphatic. read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 6:6

repented = the Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . LORD = Jehovah, in His covenant relation with mankind. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 6:7

destroy = wipe off, blot out. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:5

"And Jehovah 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."What is visible here is the total corruption of humanity. The very citadel of human life, the heart, which in Hebrew thought meant the mind, was devoted exclusively to the contemplation of evil, and there were no exceptions. Furthermore, there were no men anywhere (with the exception noted in Genesis 6:8) who varied from this pattern; and there... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:6

And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.What is meant here is that, "God in consistency with his immutability, assumes a changed position in respect to changed man."[12] The expression that God repented (Jonah 3:10), or as here, "It repented Jehovah," cannot refer to any change in God; for as Malachi put it, "I, Jehovah, change not" (Malachi 3:6).The hardening and corruption of all mankind having become total and final, God announced the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:7

"And Jehovah, said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them."The hardening and corruption of all mankind having become total and final, God announced the summary punishment and destruction of it; but before announcing the nature of the destruction, he indicated Noah as an exception, through whom a new beginning for mankind would come. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 6:5

Genesis 6:5. The wickedness of man—great, &c.— God saw their wickedness to be great, after the period of the hundred and twenty years which he had granted them to return and repent; he saw that they amended not, but arrived at the highest pitch of depravity, both in principle and practice. The longevity of the antediluvians is alone sufficient to account for that enormous height of wickedness to which they arose, according to this text and the traditions we have of their excessive lust,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 6:6

Genesis 6:6. It repented the Lord—it grieved him at his heart— "All things past, present, and future, lie open at once to the view of the Divine Mind," says Dr. Clarke; and therefore that he is immutable in his counsels, and cannot repent, is one of the plainest dictates both of natural and revealed religion, Numbers 23:19. 1 Samuel 15:29. For he is not a man, that he should repent. So that the expressions of God's repenting, grieving, and the like, are only figurative, and adapted to our... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 6:7

Genesis 6:7. I will destroy both man and beast, &c.— God made the beasts for the service and delight of man; they therefore must perish with him, as with him they became subject to vanity and abuse. And God might certainly destroy them thus with as much justice as by a natural death; it is only a recalling that temporary breath which God himself had given them. And as the recalling it at that time, served to render this example of the Divine severity against sin the more signal and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 6:5

5, 6. God saw it . . . repented . . . grieved—God cannot change (Malachi 3:6; James 1:17); but, by language suited to our nature and experience, He is described as about to alter His visible procedure towards mankind—from being merciful and long-suffering, He was about to show Himself a God of judgment; and, as that impious race had filled up the measure of their iniquities, He was about to introduce a terrible display of His justice (Ecclesiastes 8:11). read more

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