Genesis 8:1
God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters started going down.
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2The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and it stopped raining.
Cross References
Genesis 19:29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God called Abraham to mind. He sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities in which Lot had lived.
Exodus 2:24When God heard their groaning, God called to mind his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Numbers 22:32The angel of Yahweh said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Look, I have come as someone hostile to you because your actions before me have been wicked.
Nehemiah 13:14Call me to mind, my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out the good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and its services.
Nehemiah 13:29Call them to mind, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
Job 12:15See, if he withholds the waters, they dry up; 1 and if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land. 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:1
In the close of the foregoing chapter we left the world in ruins and the church in straits; but in this chapter we have the repair of the one and the enlargement of the other. Now the scene alters, and another face of things begins to be presented to us, and the brighter side of that cloud which there appeared so black and dark; for, though God contend long, he will not contend for ever, nor be always wrath. We have here, I. The earth made anew, by the recess of the waters, and the appearing of the dry land, now a… Read the whole commentary →