Chapter 7:
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Genesis 7
We have in this chapter,
I. God's gracious call to Noah to come into the ark, ver. 1. and to
bring the creatures that were to be preserved alive, with him, ver.
2, 3. in consideration of the deluge at hand, ver. 4.
II. Noah's obedience, ver. 5. he came with his family into the ark,
ver. 6, 7. and brought the creatures with him, ver. 8, 9. An account of
which is repeated, ver. 13, 14, 15, 16. to which is added God's
tender care to shut him in.
III. The coming of the threatened deluge, ver. 10. the causes of it,
ver. 11, 12. the prevalency of it, ver. 17, 18, 19, 20.
IV. The dreadful desolations that were made by it, in the death of
every living creature upon earth, except what were in the ark, ver.
21, 22, 23.
V. The continuance of it in full sea, before it began to ebb, 150
days, ver. 24.
Verse 1. Here is a gracious invitation of Noah and his family into a place
of safety, now the flood of waters was coming. For thee have I
seen righteous before me in this generation - Those are righteous
indeed that are righteous before God; that have not only the form
of godliness by which they appear righteous before men, who may
easily be imposed upon; but the power of it, by which they
approve themselves to God, who searcheth the heart.
Verse 2. Here are necessary orders given concerning the brute creatures
that they were to be preserved alive with Noah in the ark. He must
carefully preserve every species, that no tribe, no, not the least
considerable, might entirely perish out of the creation. Observe in
this:
(1.) God's care for man. Doth God take care for oxen? 1 Cor. ix,
9, or was it not rather for man's sake that this care was taken?
(2.) Even the unclean beasts were preserved alive in the ark, that
were least valuable. For God's tender mercies are over all his
works, and not only over those that are of most use.
(3.) Yet more of the clean were preserved than of the unclean.
1. Because the clean were most for the service of man; and
therefore in favour to him, more of them were preserved and are
still propagated. Thanks be to God there are not herds of lions as
there are of oxen, nor flocks of tigers as there are of sheep.
2. Because the clean were for sacrifice to God; and therefore, in
honour to him, more of them were preserved, three couple for
breed, and the odd seventh for sacrifice, chap. viii, 20.
Verse 4. Yet seven days and I will cause it to rain - It shall be seven days yet before I do it, After the 120 years were expired, God grants
them a reprieve of seven days longer, both to shew how slow he is
to anger, and to give them some farther space for repentance. But
all in vain; these seven days were trifled away after all the rest,
they continued secure until the day that the flood came. While
Noah told them of the judgment at a distance, they were tempted
to put off their repentance: but now he is ordered to tell them that
it is at the door; that they have but one week more to turn them in,
to see if that will now at last awaken them to consider the things
that belong to their peace. But it is common for those that have
been careless for their souls during the years of their health, when
they have looked upon death at a distance, to be as careless during
the days, the seven days of their sickness, when they see it
approaching, their hearts being hardened by the deceitfulness of
sin.
Verse 7. And Noah went in with his sons, and his wife, and his sons
wives - And the brute creatures readily went in with him. The
same hand that at first brought them to Adam to be named, now
brought them to Noah to be preserved.
Verse 11. The six hundredth year of Noah's life, was 1656 years from
the creation. In the second month, the seventeenth day of the
month - Which is reckoned to be about the beginning of
November; so that Noah had had a harvest just before, from
which to victual his ark. The same day the fountains of the great
deep were broken up - There needed no new creation of waters;
God has laid up the deep in store-houses, Psalm xxxiii, 7, and now
he broke up those stores. God had, in the creation, set bars and
doors to the waters of the sea, that they might not return to cover
the earth, Psalm civ; Job xxxviii, 9-11, and now he only removed
these ancient mounds and fences, and the waters of the sea
returned to cover the earth, as they had done at first, chap. i, 9.
And the windows of heaven were opened - And the waters which
were above the firmament were poured out upon the world; those
treasures which God has reserved against the time of trouble, the
day of battle and war, Job xxxviii, 22, 23. The rain, which
ordinarily descends in drops, then came down in streams. We
read, Job xxvi, 8. That God binds up the waters in his thick
clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them; but now the bond
was loosed, the cloud was rent, and such rains descended as were
never known before or since.
Verse 12. It rained without intermission or abatement, forty days and
forty nights - And that upon the whole earth at once.
Verse 14. And every beast after his kind - According to the phrase used
in the history of the creation, chap. i, 21, 24, 25, to intimate, that
just as many species as were created at first were saved now, and
no more.
Verse 20. The mountains were covered - Therefore there were
mountains before the flood.
Verse 21. All flesh died, all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of
all that was on the dry land, every living substance - And why so?
Man only had done wickedly, and justly is God's hand against
him, but these sheep what have they done? I answer,
1. We are sure God did them no wrong. He is the sovereign Lord
of all life, for he is the sole fountain and author of it. He that made
them as he pleased, might unmake them when he pleased, and
who shall say unto him, What dost thou?
2. God did admirably serve the purposes of his own glory by their
destruction, as well as by their creation. Herein his holiness and
justice were greatly magnified: by this it appears that he hates sin,
and is highly displeased with sinners, when even the inferior
creatures, because they are the servants of man, and part of his
possession, and because they have been abused to be the servants
of sin, are destroyed with him. It was likewise an instance of
God's wisdom. As the creatures were made for man when he was
made, so they were multiplied for him when he was multiplied;
and therefore, now mankind was reduced to so small a number, it
was fit that the beasts should proportionable be reduced,
otherwise they would have had the dominion, and would have
replenished the earth, and the remnant of mankind that was left
would have been overpowered by them.
Chapter 7:
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