The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
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The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
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The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
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the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
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Passages linked to Genesis 8:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
- Matthew 8:26-27 He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm. The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
- Proverbs 8:28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
- Job 37:11-13 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning. It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world, Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.
- Job 38:37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
- Jonah 2:3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
- Matthew 8:9 For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and…
Gen 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Ver. 2. And the rain from heaven was restrained.] These four keys, say the Rabbis, God keeps under his own belt: 1. Of the womb; 2. Of the grave; 3. Of the rain; 4. Of the heart. "He openeth, and no man shutteth; he shutteth and no man openeth". {Rev 3:7}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The fountains also of the deep, and the windows…
The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven, were stopped,.... The passages which let out the subterraneous waters in great quantity upon the earth, and the clouds of heaven, which poured down water upon it like spouts, were stopped from sending forth any more, as they had from the first of the flood unto one hundred and fifty days from thence: Jarchi observes, that it is not said that "all" the fountains of the deep, as when they were broken up, Gen 7:11 because some of them were left open for the use and benefit of the world; besides, some must be left for the return of the waters:
and the rain from heaven was restrained: which seems to confirm what has been before observed, that after the rain of forty days and nights it ceased not to rain, more or less, though not so vehemently, until the end of an hundred and fifty days, and then it entirely ceased.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The fountains also of the deep, and the windows…
The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped. WrkSYiw, from rksrgs; to surround, to enclose; literally, were shut up; ejpekalufqhsan (LXX.). Their opening was described in Gen_7:11. And the rain from heaven was restrained. aleKYiw, literally, was shut up, from alK to close. Cf. kleiw, kwluw, kolouw, celo, occulo (Gesenius, Furst), sunesceqh (LXX). At the end of the forty; (Gen_7:12; Augustine, Willet) at the end of the 150 days (Aben Ezra, Murphy).
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 8:2 underground waters . . . torrential rains: See…
8:2 underground waters . . . torrential rains: See study note on 7:11-12.
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