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Commentaries on Genesis 8:12

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Genesis 8 This chapter gives an account of the going off of the waters from the earth, and of the entire deliverance of Noah, and those with him in the ark, from the flood, when all the rest were destroyed: after an one hundred and fifty days a wind is sent over the earth, the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven are stopped, the waters go off gradually, and the ark...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And he stayed yet other seven days,.... After the dove had returned: and sent forth the dove; the same dove again; which returned not again unto him any more: the earth being dry, it found rest for the sole of its feet, sufficient food to eat, and a proper place for its habitation; and liking to be at liberty, and in the open air, chose not to return to the ark, even though its mate was there: of...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

In the close of the foregoing chapter we left the world in ruins and the church in straits; but in this chapter we have the repair of the one and the enlargement of the other. Now the scene alters, and another face of things begins to be presented to us, and the brighter side of that cloud which there appeared so black and dark; for, though God contend long, he will not contend for ever, nor be...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. Noah could read something from that leaf that the dove brought to him, but he learned more when she did not return to him. He knew that she had found a proper resting-place, and that the earth was clear of the flood.