Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so.
Genesis 6:17
“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.
Genesis 8:2
The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.
Job 28:4
He cuts a shaft far from human habitation,
in places unknown to those who walk above ground.
Suspended far away from people,
the miners swing back and forth.
Job 38:8
Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst from the womb,
Psalm 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea into a heap;
He puts the depths into storehouses.
Psalm 74:15
You opened up springs and streams;
You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
Proverbs 8:28
when He placed the skies above,
when the fountains of the ocean gushed out,
Isaiah 24:19
The earth is completely devastated;
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.
Jeremiah 5:22
Do you not fear Me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Do you not tremble before Me,
the One who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,
an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?
The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.
They roar but cannot pass over it.
Jeremiah 51:16
When He thunders,
the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,
and He causes the clouds
to rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.
Ezekiel 26:19
For this is what the Lord God says: “When I make you a ruined city like other deserted cities, when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
Amos 9:5
The Lord, the God of Hosts—
He touches the earth;
it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn;
all of it rises like the Nile
and subsides like the Nile of Egypt.
Matthew 24:38
For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains come on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Windows

Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so.
Genesis 8:2
The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.
2 Kings 7:2
Then the captain, the king’s right-hand man, responded to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?”

Elisha announced, “You will in fact see it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat any of it.”
Psalm 78:23
He gave a command to the clouds above
and opened the doors of heaven.
Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this way,” says the Lord of Hosts. “See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.

General references

Genesis 8:14
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry.
Job 36:28
which the clouds pour out
and shower abundantly on mankind.

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