God Remembered

CHAPTER 8

v1; And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark:

and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; (what does assuaged mean?)

pic of the word assuage from webster dictionary
def. from webster dictionary

v2; The fountains also of the deep an the windows of heaven were stopped,

and the rain from heaven was restrained;

v3; And the waters returned from off the earth continually: ( This is a tough sentence for me to understand. The water is receding or evaporating? But it had returned to where it came from.)

and after the end of the 150 days the waters were abated. (What does abated mean?)

picture of the difinition of the word abate from webster dictionary
def. from Webster’s dictionary

Death across the entire Earth

pic of massive water overtaking city

(Imagine the water covering up mountains, everybody dies except 8 people and male & female of every animal.. photo credit: Sean Deavy )

v21; And all the flesh that moved upon the earth, both of foul, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepth upon the Earth, and every man:

v22; All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

v23; 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 ark.

v24; the waters prevailed on the earth an 150 days.

The water

v17; The flood was 40 days upon the Earth. The water increased and bare up the ark, (after the Lord shut him in the flood came, no mention of rain yet.)

and it was lift up above the Earth

v18; The waters prevailed, and increase greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

v19; The water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

v20; 15 cubits did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.