Genesis 8:1, God remembers Noah, and assuages the waters; Genesis 8:4, The ark rests on Ararat; Genesis 8:6, Noah sends forth a raven and then a dove; Genesis 8:13, Noah, being commanded, goes forth from the ark; Genesis 8:20, He builds an altar, and offers sacrifice, which God accepts, and promises to curse the earth no more.
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Genesis 8
Genesis 8 — Overview
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Genesis 8 — OverviewGenesis 8 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIn the close of the foregoing chapter we left the world in ruins and
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one and the enlargement of the other. Now the scene alters, and another…Genesis 8 — OverviewGenesis 8 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis 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…Genesis 8:1-3Genesis 8:1-3 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is, I. An act of God's grace: God remembered Noah and every living
thing. This is an expression after the manner of men; for not any of
his creatures (Luke xii. 6), much less any of his people, are forgotten…Genesis 8:1Genesis 8:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryAnd God. Elohim, i.e. God in his most universal relation to his creatures. The supposition of two different accounts or histories being intermingled in the narrative of the Flood (Bleek, Eichhorn, Hupfeld, Kalisch,…Genesis 8:1Genesis 8:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryGod's infinite care.
In the experience of Christians the joy of first believing is often followed by a time of discouragement. Freshness of feeling seems to fade. The "law of sin" makes itself felt. Yet it is just the…Genesis 8:1-5Genesis 8:1-5 · The Pulpit CommentaryGrace and providence.
The powers of material nature are obedient servants of God, and those who are the objects of his regard, remembered by him, are safely kept in the midst of the world's changes. "All things work…
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