Genesis 7:21
Every living thing that was outside the boat died. The flood water killed all the birds, all the wild animals, all the quiet animals, all the little animals that move along the ground and every living person.
Barkly (portions)
In The King James Version
In Context
20It covered the tops of those hills with about 7 metres of water.
22Yes, everything that breathed air and lived on the earth died.
Cross References
Genesis 6:13he said to Noah, “Look, nobody is living the way I want them to live. They are fighting all the time and people are getting hurt. I have made up my mind, I am going to kill everybody and every other living thing on this earth.”
Genesis 7:4I am going to make rain fall down from the sky in 7 days time. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights so that everything I made will die and be washed away.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:18-21
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. We are here told, I. How long the flood was increasing— forty… Read the whole commentary →