Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
Ver. 16. Go forth of the ark.] Learn we of this holy patriarch, to do all by God's direction, and not dare to attempt anything without his warrant; approving ourselves to him in our comings in and goings out. He hath "charged his angels" Psa 91:11 with us, so long as we keep the king's highway; but if we go out of his precincts, we go out of his protection. Take counsel at his mouth, and then we may safely say, "Lord, if I be deceived, thou hast deceived me". Jer 20:7 This, as at all times we have need to do, so now especially, when there is as 2Ch 15:5 "no peace to him that goeth out, nor to him that cometh in, but great vexation upon all countries. Nation being destroyed of nation, and city of city," &c.