Genesis 6:8
But Noah [Rest] found chen ·grace· in Adonai’s eyes. 1 Haftarah B'resheet ·Taking leave· ·In The Beginning·: 1 Yesha'yahu / Isaiah 42:5-43:10 (A); 42:5-21 (S) 1 B'rit Hadashah ·New Covenant·: John 1:1-18 1 Parashah 2: Noach ·Noah [Rest]· 6:9-11:32
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In The King James Version
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 19:19See now, your servant has found chen ·grace· in your sight, and you have magnified your chesed ·loving-kindness·, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
Psalms 84:11For Adonai God is a sun and a shield. 2 Adonai will give chen ·grace· and kavod ·weighty glory·. 2 He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly. 1
Proverbs 3:4So you will find chen ·grace·, 2 and good understanding in the sight of God and man. + 3:4 Greek Septuagint version: “So shall you find favor: and you do provide what is right in the sight of Adonai and of men.” + 3:4 Greek Septuagint is Quoted in 2 Cor 8:21 1
Proverbs 12:2A good man shall obtain favor from Adonai, 2 but he will condemn as guilty a man of wicked devices. 1
Luke 1:30+ 1:30 (30-33) MP: Star out of Jacob. Star and Scepter (Gen 49:10) together identify royal leadership. (Num 24:17) The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary [Rebellion], for you have found favor with God.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:7-8
Mankind Threatened with Destruction. ( b. c. 2469.) 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Here is, I. God's resentment of man's wickedness. He did not see it as an unconcerned spectator, but as one injured and affronted by it; he saw it as a tender father sees… Read the whole commentary →