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 same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.
12And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And God made the expanse, and divided between the waters that are under the expanse and the waters that are above the expanse; and it was so.
Genesis 8:2And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.
2 Kings 7:2And the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in the heavens, would this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Job 28:4He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants [of the earth]: forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover.
Job 38:37Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens,
Psalms 74:15*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:6-11
The Deluge. ( b. c. 2349.) 5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.… Read the whole commentary →