Genesis 7:23
The Lord wiped out all life on earth—people, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds. All were killed. The only ones left were Noah and those with him on the ark.
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22Everything on land that breathed, died.
24The earth remained flooded for 150 days.
Cross References
Genesis 7:21Everything living on earth died—the birds, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that run along the ground, and all the people.
Exodus 14:28The water poured back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the whole of Pharaoh's army that had chased after the Israelites into the sea. Not a single one of them survived.
Job 22:15Why do you insist on following the traditional thinking of the wicked?
Psalms 91:7A thousand may fall beside you, ten thousand die at your right hand, but you won't be harmed.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth won't help you on judgment day, but goodness saves you from death.
Ezekiel 14:14Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job, these three men, were present their good lives would only save themselves, declares the Lord God.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:22-24
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the… Read the whole commentary →