genesis-8:21-kjv,nlt

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 8:21

the LORD = Jehovah, in covenant-relationship. smelled a sweet savour. Hebrew "smelled a smell". Figure of speech Polyptoton ( App-6 ). savour. First occurance. Hebrew. nihoah, found only in this connection = rest, acquiescence. in His heart. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia , in condescension, and for emphasis. for = although, as in Exo 13:17 . 2 Samuel 23:5 .Psalms 49:18 . Habakkuk 3:17 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 8:20-22

NOAH'S BURNT OFFERING"And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 8:21

Genesis 8:21. The Lord smelled a sweet savour— Heb. a savour of rest, or cessation from anger. This is a phrase accommodated to our conceptions, which implies not any actual smelling, but only that this sacrifice of Noah's arose as acceptable to God, as sweet odours are to us. See Leviticus 26:31. And how it can be possible that the sacrifice and death of animals could be pleasing to God upon any other consideration than as his own appointment, and as sacrificed with a view to the great... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 8:21

21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour—The sacrifice offered by a righteous man like Noah in faith was acceptable as the most fragrant incense. Lord said in his heart—same as "I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth" (Isaiah 54:9). for—that is, "though the imagination is evil"; instead of inflicting another destructive flood, I shall spare them—to enjoy the blessings of grace, through a Saviour. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 8:9-22

1. The Flood 6:9-8:22The chiastic (palistrophic, crossing) structure of this section shows that Moses intended to emphasize God’s grace to Noah, which occupies the central part of the story."One mark of the coherence of the flood narrative is to be found in its literary structure. The tale is cast in the form of an extended palistrophe, that is a structure that turns back on itself. In a palistrophe the first item matches the final item, the second item matches the penultimate item, and so on.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 8:20-22

Noah’s "altar" is the first altar mentioned in the Bible. His "burnt offerings" were for worship. Some of the burnt offerings in the Mosaic cultus (system of worship) were for the same purpose. Specifically, a burnt offering made atonement and expressed the offerer’s complete personal devotion to God (cf. Leviticus 1; Romans 12:1-2). As the head of the new humanity, Noah’s sacrifice represented all humankind.God may judge the wicked catastrophically and begin a new era of existence with... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 8:1-22

The Flood (continued)4. The mountains of Ararat] Ararat is the Assyrian ’Urardhu,’ the country round Lake Van, in what is now called Armenia; but the word also signifies ’highlands,’ and perhaps it is a general expression for the hilly country which lay to the N. of Assyria. Mt. Masis, now called Mt. Ararat (a peak 17,000 ft. high), is not meant here. 11. The olive leaf indicated that the tree was above water, and as the olive does not grow at a great elevation, the inference was that the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 8:21

(21) A sweet savour.—Heb., a smell of satisfaction. The idea is not so much that the sacrifice gave God pleasure as that it caused Him to regard man with complacency. The anger at sin which had caused the flood was now over, and there was peace between heaven and earth.Said in his heart.—Heb., to his heart: that is, Jehovah determined with himself, came to the settled purpose. (Comp. Genesis 17:17.)For the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth.—See Genesis 6:5. There seems at first... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 8:1-22

Noah Saved in the Ark Genesis 8:1-22 Traditions of the Flood linger among all branches of the human race except the black. Remember from the Greek story of Deucalion, when Zeus had resolved to destroy mankind, after the treatment he had received from Lycaon, Deucalion built an ark in which he and his wife Pyrrha floated during the nine days' flood which destroyed Greece. When the waters subsided, Deucalion's ark rested on Mount Parnassus. Ten buildings the size of Solomon's temple could have... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:1-22

THE FLOODGenesis 5:1-32; Genesis 6:1-22; Genesis 7:1-24; Genesis 8:1-22; Genesis 9:1-29THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was the Flood. There is every reason to believe that this catastrophe was co-extensive with the human population of the world. In every branch of the human family traditions of the event are found. These traditions need not be recited, though some of them bear a remarkable likeness to the Biblical story, while others... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 8:21

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 8:20-22

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 8:21

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 8:21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 8:9-22

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 8:20-22

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 8:1-22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 8:21

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 8:1-22

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:1-22

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