Genesis 7:12

God by this gradual proceeding both awakened to repentance, and gave them space for it.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

It rained without intermission or abatement, forty days and forty nights — And that upon the whole earth at once.

¹² And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 7:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Genesis 7:12