Genesis 7:11

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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month– on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

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  • Gen 8:2 : 2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
  • Gen 1:7 : 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.
  • Ezek 26:19 : 19 “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,
  • Mal 3:10 : 10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it all.
  • 2 Kgs 7:19 : 19 But the officer replied to the prophet,“Look, even if the LORD made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” Elisha said,“Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”
  • Job 28:4 : 4 Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 “Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb, 9 when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, 10 when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors, 11 when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.
  • Ps 74:15 : 15 You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.
  • Ps 78:23-24 : 23 He gave a command to the clouds above, and opened the doors in the sky. 24 He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.
  • Prov 8:28-29 : 28 when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep, 29 when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
  • Isa 24:19 : 19 The earth is broken in pieces, the earth is ripped to shreds, the earth shakes violently.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 “You should fear me!” says the LORD.“You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”
  • Jer 51:16 : 16 When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.
  • Matt 24:38 : 38 For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 Now when they are saying,“There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.
  • Amos 9:5-6 : 5 The Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies will do this. He touches the earth and it dissolves; all who live on it mourn. The whole earth rises like the River Nile, and then grows calm like the Nile in Egypt. 6 He builds the upper rooms of his palace in heaven and sets its foundation supports on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name.
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man responded to the prophet,“Look, even if the LORD made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” Elisha said,“Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”

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  • Gen 7:10
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    10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

  • Gen 7:12-13
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    12And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

    13On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.

  • Gen 8:13-15
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    13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

    14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

    15Then God spoke to Noah and said,

  • Gen 8:1-7
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    1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

    3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

    4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

    5The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

    6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

    7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

  • Gen 7:16-20
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    16Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.

    17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

    18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

    19The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

    20The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

  • Gen 7:4-7
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    4For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

    5And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

    6Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

    7Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

    24The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

  • Gen 6:17
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    17I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

  • Gen 1:7
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    7So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

  • Luke 17:27
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    27People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage– right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

  • 2 Pet 3:6
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    6Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.

  • Gen 8:10-11
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    10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

    11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

  • 2 Pet 2:5
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    5and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,

  • Gen 7:1
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    1The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.