Genesis 7:23
Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
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22All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
24The waters flooded the earth one hundred and fifty days.
Cross References
Genesis 7:21All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
Exodus 14:28The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
Job 22:15Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
Psalms 91:7A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
Proverbs 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Ezekiel 14:14though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says 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 →