Genesis 7:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

This is so often repeated, that it may be more deeply ingrafted into the dull minds and hard hearts of men, to teach men that they ought again and again to consider this dreadful instance of God's justice against sin and incorrigible sinners.

Genesis 7:23

23 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.