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創世記 7:4

4 七日の後、わたしは四十日四十夜、地に雨を降らせて、わたしの造ったすべての生き物を、地のおもてからぬぐい去ります」。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Ark;   Rain;   Seven;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Elements, Control of;   Home;   Periods and Numbers;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Power;   Religion;   Seven;   Stories for Children;   Weakness-Power;   The Topic Concordance - Perishing;   World;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Deluge, the;   Rain;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Seven;   Year;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Deluge;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Jesus Christ;   Number;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Noah;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deluge;   Hexateuch;   Time;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Earth;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Noah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Flood;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Forty;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Weeks;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Noah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Day and Night;   Deluge of Noah, the;   Earth;   Four;   Genesis;   Number;   Rain;   Sabbath;   Tempest;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Antediluvians;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birds;   Forty, the Number;   Mourning;   Numbers and Numerals;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For: Genesis 7:10, Genesis 2:5, Genesis 6:3, Genesis 8:10, Genesis 8:12, Genesis 29:27, Genesis 29:28, Job 28:25, Job 36:27-32, Job 37:11, Job 37:12, Amos 4:7

forty days: Genesis 7:12, Genesis 7:17

and every: Genesis 7:21-23, Genesis 6:17

destroy: Heb. blot out, Genesis 7:21, Genesis 7:23, Genesis 6:7, Genesis 6:13, Genesis 6:17, Exodus 32:32, Exodus 32:33, Job 22:16, Psalms 69:28, Revelation 3:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:13 - within Deuteronomy 6:15 - destroy Job 24:1 - not see Jeremiah 28:16 - I will Amos 9:8 - and I Luke 21:35 - dwell Acts 28:14 - and were

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For yet seven days,.... Or one week more, after the above orders were given, which, the Jews say, were for the mourning at Methuselah's death; others, that they were an additional space to the one hundred and twenty given to the old world for repentance; in which time some might truly repent, finding that the destruction of the world was very near, and who might be saved from everlasting damnation, though not from perishing in the flood: but it rather was a space of time proper for Noah to have, to settle himself and family, and all the creatures in the ark, and dispose of everything there, in the best manner, for their sustenance and safety:

and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: this was not an ordinary but an extraordinary rain, in which the power and providence of God were eminently concerned, both with respect to the continuance of it, and the quantity of water that fell:

and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth: not every substance that has a vegetative life, as plants, herbs, and trees, which were not destroyed, see Genesis 8:11 but every substance that has animal life, as fowls, cattle, creeping things, and men.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- The Ark Was Entered

2. טהור ṭâhôr “clean, fit for food or sacrifice.”

4. יקוּם yeqûm “standing thing; what grows up, whether animal or plant.” Compare קמה qāmâh “stalk, or standing corn.”

Genesis 7:1-4

Here is found the command to enter the ark. The general direction in the preceding chapter was given many years ago, before the ark was commenced. Now, when it is completed, a more specific command is issued. “For thee have I seen righteous before me.” Noah has accepted the mercy of God, is therefore set right in point of law, and walks aright in point of practice. The Lord recognizes this indication of an adopted and renewed son. “In this age” he and his were the solitary family so characterized.

Genesis 7:2-3

Of all clean cattle. - Here the distinction of clean and unclean animals meets us without any previous notice. How it became known to Noah we are not informed. From the former direction it appears that the animals were to enter by pairs. Now it is further arranged that there are to be seven pairs of the clean cattle and fowl, and only one pair of the unclean.

Genesis 7:4

Seven days after the issue of the command the rain is to commence, and continue for forty days and nights without ceasing. “Every standing thing” means every plant and animal on the land.

Genesis 7:5-9

The execution of the command is recorded and fully particularized with the additional circumstance of the age of Noah. “The son of six hundred years,” in his six hundredth year. “Went they unto Noah.” They seem to have come under the influence of a special instinct, so that Noah did not require to gather them. Seven days were employed in receiving them, and storing provisions for them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Genesis 7:4. For yet seven days — God spoke these words probably on the seventh or Sabbath day, and the days of the ensuing week were employed in entering the ark, in embarking the mighty troop, for whose reception ample provision had been already made.

Forty days — This period became afterwards sacred, and was considered a proper space for humiliation. Moses fasted forty days, Deuteronomy 9:9; Deuteronomy 9:11; so did Elijah, 1 Kings 19:8; so did our Lord, Matthew 4:2. Forty days' respite were given to the Ninevites that they might repent, Jonah 3:4; and thrice forty (one hundred and twenty) years were given to the old world for the same gracious purpose, Genesis 6:3. The forty days of Lent, in commemoration of our Lord's fasting, have a reference to the same thing; as each of these seems to be deduced from this primitive judgment.


 
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