14 Bible Verses about The Deluge

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Genesis 9:11

And I established my covenant with you; and all flesh shall not be dissipated any more by the waters of a flood and there shall not be any more a flood to destroy the earth.

Genesis 6:7

And Jehovah will say, I will wipe out man whom I formed from above the face of the earth; from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing and even to the birds of the heavens; and I was grieved that I made them.

Genesis 7:11

In the year of six hundred years of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in the same day all the fountains of the great deep were divided and the sluices of the heavens were opened.

Job 22:16

Who were laid hold of, and no time a river will pour out their foundation?

Isaiah 54:9

For this the water of Noah to me: as I sware to the water of Noah from again passing over the earth; thus I sware from being angry against thee and from rebuking upon thee.

Matthew 24:38

For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark,

Genesis 6:5-7

And Jehovah will see that great the evil of man in the earth, and every formation of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the days. And Jehovah will lament that he made man in the earth, and he will be grieved at his heart And Jehovah will say, I will wipe out man whom I formed from above the face of the earth; from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing and even to the birds of the heavens; and I was grieved that I made them.

Matthew 24:38-39

For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark, And knew not till the inundation came, and took them all away; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man.

2 Peter 3:5-6

For being willing this is unknown to them, that the heavens were a long while ago, and the earth having stood out of water and by water, by the word of God: By which then the world, overflowed with water, perished:

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the Deluge » Produced by » Forty days' incessant rain

Genesis 7:17

And the flood shall be forty days upon the earth, and the waters shall multiply, and shall take up the ark, and it shall be lifted up from above the earth.

Genesis 7:4

For yet seven days, and I will give rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will wipe out every living thing which I made from the face of the earth.

the Deluge » Illustrative » Of the destruction of sinners

Isaiah 28:2

Behold, a strong and active one to Jehovah, as a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, as a storm of vast waters overflowing, let fall to the earth with the hand.

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death was obliterated, and your league with hades shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through and ye. were for a treading down to it

Psalm 32:6

For this all the godly shall pray to thee for the time of finding: only for the inundation of many waters they shall not draw near to him.

the Deluge » Noah, &c, saved from

Genesis 6:18-22

And I set up my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come in to the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. And from every living thing of all flesh, two of all shalt thou bring in to the ark, to preserve alive with thee: male and female shall they be. From birds according to its kind, and cattle according to their kind; of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two from all shall come to thee to preserve alive. read more.
And take thou to thee of all food which shall be eaten, and thou shalt collect to thee, and it shall be to thee and to them for food. And Noah will do all which God commanded him; so did he.

Genesis 7:13-14

In that very day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; Noah's sons, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them to the ark. They, and every living thing after its kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing creeping upon the earth, after its kind, and every bird after his kind, and every small bird of every wing.

the Deluge » Illustrative » (unexpectedness of,) of suddenness of Christ's coming

Matthew 24:36-39

And concerning that day and hour, none know, nor the messengers of the heavens, except my Father only. And as the days of Noe, so shall be the arrival of the Son of man. For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark, read more.
And knew not till the inundation came, and took them all away; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man.

Luke 17:26-30

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man. They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day which Noe came into the ark, and the overflow came, and destroyed all. And likewise as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; read more.
And the day which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all. According to these shall be the day in which the Son of man is revealed.

the Deluge » The wicked warned of

1 Peter 3:19-20

In which also having gone, he proclaimed to the spirits in prison; They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

the Deluge » Sent as a punishment for the extreme wickedness of man » Ge 6:5-7

the Deluge » Noah forewarned of

Genesis 6:13

And God will say to Noah, The end of all flesh came in to my face, for the earth was filled with violence from the face of them, and behold me destroying them from the earth.

the Deluge » Long-suffering of God exhibited in deferring

the Deluge » Decrease of, gradual

Genesis 8:3

And the waters shall turn back from over the earth, going and turning back, and the waters shall fail from the end of fifty and one hundred days.

Genesis 8:5

And the waters were going and diminishing until the tenth month: in the tenth, in the one of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.

the Deluge » Came suddenly and unexpectedly

Matthew 24:38-39

For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark, And knew not till the inundation came, and took them all away; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man.

the Deluge » That it shall never again occur » The rainbow a token

Genesis 9:12-17

And God will say, This is a sign of the covenant which I give between me and between you, and between every breathing thing living which is with you for future generations. I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and between the earth. And it shall be in my giving a cloud upon the earth, and the bow was seen in the cloud. read more.
And I remembered my covenant which is between me and between you, and between every breathing thing living of all flesh; and the waters shall not any more become a flood to destroy all flesh. The bow shall be in the cloud; and seeing it to remember the lasting covenant between God and between every breathing thing living of all flesh which is upon the earth. And God will say to Noah, This the sign of the covenant which I established between me and between all flesh which is upon the earth.

the Deluge » That it shall never again occur » Promised

Genesis 8:21-22

And Jehovah smelled a smell of sweetness; and Jehovah will say in his heart, I will not gather to curse the earth yet again on account of man; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: and I will not gather yet again to smite every living thing according to which I did. Yet all the days of the earth, seed and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

the Deluge » Illustrative » Of baptism

1 Peter 3:20-21

They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. By which also the figure, immersion, now saves us (not by laying aside of the filth of the flesh, but the question of a good. consciousness toward God,) by the rising up of Jesus Christ:

the Deluge » Increased gradually

Genesis 7:17-18

And the flood shall be forty days upon the earth, and the waters shall multiply, and shall take up the ark, and it shall be lifted up from above the earth. And the waters shall prevail and shall multiply exceedingly upon the earth: and the ark shall go upon the face of the waters.

the Deluge » Extreme height of

Genesis 7:19-20

And the waters prevailed exceedingly exceedingly upon the earth: and all the high mountains which are underneath all the heavens shall be covered. Fifteen cubits from upward, the waters prevailed: and will cover the mountains.

the Deluge » That it shall never again occur » A pledge of God's faithfulness

Isaiah 54:9-10

For this the water of Noah to me: as I sware to the water of Noah from again passing over the earth; thus I sware from being angry against thee and from rebuking upon thee. For the mountains shall remove and the hills shall waver; and my mercy shall not remove from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not waver, said Jehovah compassionating thee.

the Deluge » That it shall never again occur » Confirmed by covenant

Genesis 9:9-11

And I, behold I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you. And with every breathing thing which is with you, of birds, of cattle, and of every living thing of the earth with you, from all going out of the ark, to every living thing of the earth. And I established my covenant with you; and all flesh shall not be dissipated any more by the waters of a flood and there shall not be any more a flood to destroy the earth.

the Deluge » Entire face of the earth changed by

2 Peter 3:5-6

For being willing this is unknown to them, that the heavens were a long while ago, and the earth having stood out of water and by water, by the word of God: By which then the world, overflowed with water, perished:

the Deluge » Causes of its abatement

Genesis 8:1-2

AND God will remember Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that with him in the ark: and God will make a wind to pass over the earth and the waters will settle down. And the fountains of the deep, and the sluices of the heavens shall be shut up, and the rains from the heavens shall be withheld.

the Deluge » Produced by » Opening up of the fountains of the great deep

Genesis 7:11

In the year of six hundred years of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in the same day all the fountains of the great deep were divided and the sluices of the heavens were opened.

the Deluge » Called the » Flood

Genesis 9:28

And Noah shall live after the flood three hundred years and fifty years.

the Deluge » Time of its increase and prevailing

Genesis 7:24

And the waters shall prevail upon the earth fifty and one hundred days.

the Deluge » Complete destruction effected by

Genesis 7:23

And every living thing shall be wiped off which upon the face of the earth, from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing, and even to the birds of the heavens; and they shall be wiped out from the earth, and Noah only shall remain and they which with him in the ark.

the Deluge » Date of its complete removal

Genesis 8:13

And it shall be in the one and six hundredth year, in the beginning, in one of the month, the waters were diminished from over the earth: and Noah will turn away the covering of the ark, and he will see and behold the face of the earth was dry.

the Deluge » Traditional notice of

Job 22:15-17

Wilt thou watch the path of old which men of iniquity trod? Who were laid hold of, and no time a river will pour out their foundation? They saying to God, Depart fron us: and what shall the Almighty do for them?

the Deluge » Date of its commencement

Genesis 7:11

In the year of six hundred years of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in the same day all the fountains of the great deep were divided and the sluices of the heavens were opened.

the Deluge » Called the » Waters of noah

Isaiah 54:9

For this the water of Noah to me: as I sware to the water of Noah from again passing over the earth; thus I sware from being angry against thee and from rebuking upon thee.

Meteorology and celestial phenomena » Phenomena of » the Deluge

Genesis 7:8

From clean beasts, and from cattle which are not clean, and from birds and all which creeps upon the earth.

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