Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yeere of Noahs life in the second moneth, the seuetenth day of the moneth, in the same day were all the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
10And so after seuen dayes the waters of the flood were vpon the earth.
12And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament: and it was so.
Genesis 8:2The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,
2 Kings 7:2Then a prince, on whose hande the King leaned, answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lord would make windowes in the heauen, could this thing come to passe? And he said, Beholde, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.
Job 28:4The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.
Job 38:37Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,
Psalms 74:15Thou brakest vp the fountaine and riuer: thou dryedst vp mightie riuers.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:6-11
The Deluge. ( b. c. 2349.) 5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.… Read the whole commentary →