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Commentaries on Genesis 8:13

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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 it came to pass, in the six hundred and first year,.... Of Noah's life, and so the Septuagint adds, in the first month, [the first day] of the month; so that it was the first day of the year, New Year's Day, and a joyful one it was to Noah and his family, when they saw dry ground; which they had not seen for above ten months: according to R. Joshua, this was the month Nisan, which was the...

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 it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: That was a happy New Year’s day for Noah. He was glad to find himself at rest once more, though not yet at liberty. Gen_8:13. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. Why did not Noah come...