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“Look! I am going to cover the earth with a flood and destroy every living being—everything in which there is the breath of life. All will die.
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Bring a pair of every animal—a male and a female—into the boat with you, to keep them alive through the flood. Bring in a pair of each kind of bird and animal and reptile.
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and seven pairs of every kind of bird. Thus there will be every kind of life reproducing again after the flood has ended.
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He was 600 years old when the flood came.
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He boarded the boat with his wife and sons and their wives, to escape the flood.
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For forty days the roaring floods prevailed, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.
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God didn’t forget about Noah and all the animals in the boat! He sent a wind to blow across the waters, and the floods began to disappear,
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So the flood gradually receded until, 150 days after it began, the boat came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat.
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“I solemnly promise you and your children and the animals you brought with you—all these birds and cattle and wild animals—that I will never again send another flood to destroy the earth.
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and I will remember my promise to you and to every being, that never again will the floods come and destroy all life.
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Noah lived another 350 years after the flood
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These are the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who were the three sons of Noah; for sons were born to them after the flood.
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All of the men listed above descended from Noah, through many generations, living in the various nations that developed after the flood.
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Shem’s line of descendants included Arpachshad, born two years after the flood when Shem was 100 years old; after that he lived another 500 years and had many sons and daughters.
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So David went out and fought with them at Baal-perazim and defeated them. “The Lord did it!” he exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood.” So he named the place “Bursting.”
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The waves of death surrounded me; Floods of evil burst upon me;
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They crossed the Jordan River during its seasonal flooding and conquered the lowlands on both the east and west banks.
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My brother, you have proved as unreliable as a brook; it floods when there is ice and snow, but in hot weather, disappears. The caravans turn aside to be refreshed, but there is nothing there to drink, and so they perish.
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He withholds the rain, and the earth becomes a desert; he sends the storms and floods the ground.
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He floods the darkness with light, even the dark shadow of death.
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Death bound me with chains, and the floods of ungodliness mounted a massive attack against me.
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At the Flood the Lord showed his control of all creation. Now he continues to unveil his power.
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Because of your anger, my body is sick, my health is broken beneath my sins. They are like a flood, higher than my head; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
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All your waves and billows have gone over me, and floods of sorrow pour upon me like a thundering cataract.
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You sent troops to ride across our broken bodies. We went through fire and flood. But in the end, you brought us into wealth and great abundance.
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Save me, O my God. The floods have risen. Deeper and deeper I sink in the mire; the waters rise around me.
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Don’t let the floods overwhelm me or the ocean swallow me; save me from the pit that threatens me.
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You clothed the earth with floods of waters covering up the mountains.
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We would have drowned beneath the flood of these men’s fury and pride.
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When a poor man oppresses those even poorer, he is like an unexpected flood sweeping away their last hope.
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In that case, your mouth is making you sin. Don’t try to defend yourself by telling the messenger from God that it was all a mistake to make the vow. That would make God very angry; and he might destroy your prosperity. Dreaming instead of doing is foolishness, and there is ruin in a flood of empty words; fear God instead.
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Many waters cannot quench the flame of love, neither can the floods drown it. If a man tried to buy it with everything he owned, he couldn’t do it.” The Girl’s Brothers:
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therefore I will overwhelm my people with Euphrates’ mighty flood; the king of Assyria and all his mighty armies will rage against them. This flood will overflow all its channels and sweep into your land of Judah, O Immanuel, submerging it from end to end.”
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And the waters of the Nile will fail to rise and flood the fields; the ditches will be parched and dry,
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I will take the line and plummet of justice to check the foundation wall you built; it looks so fine, but it is so weak a storm of hail will knock it down! The enemy will come like a flood and sweep it away, and you will be drowned.
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I will cancel your agreement of compromise with death and the devil, so when the terrible enemy floods in, you will be trampled into the ground.
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Again and again that flood will come and carry you off, until at last the unmixed horror of the truth of my warnings will finally dawn on you.”
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His wrath pours out like floods upon them all, to sweep them all away. He will sift out the proud nations and bridle them and lead them off to their doom.
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Just as in the time of Noah I swore that I would never again permit the waters of a flood to cover the earth and destroy its life, so now I swear that I will never again pour out my anger on you.
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Then at last they will reverence and glorify the name of God from west to east. For he will come like a flood tide driven by Jehovah’s breath.
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I have not joined the people in their merry feasts. I sit alone beneath the hand of God. I burst with indignation at their sins. Yet you have failed me in my time of need! You have let them keep right on with all their persecutions. Will they never stop hurting me? Your help is as uncertain as a seasonal mountain brook—sometimes a flood, sometimes as dry as a bone.”
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What is this mighty army, rising like the Nile at flood time, overflowing all the land?
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It is the Egyptian army, boasting that it will cover the earth like a flood, destroying every foe.
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The Lord says: A flood is coming from the north to overflow the land of the Philistines; it will destroy their cities and everything in them. Strong men will scream in terror, and all the land will weep.
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Yes, it will surely fall.” The Lord God says: “I will sweep it away with a storm of indignation, with a great flood of anger, and with hailstones of wrath.
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I will fight you with sword, disease, torrential floods, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone!
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“After this period of 434 years, the Anointed One will be killed, his kingdom still unrealized . . . and a king will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. They will be overwhelmed as with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end.
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“I want to see a mighty flood of justice—a torrent of doing good.
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The land will tremble as it awaits its doom, and everyone will mourn. It will rise up like the river Nile at floodtime, toss about, and sink again.
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You threw me into the ocean depths; I sank down into the floods of waters and was covered by your wild and stormy waves.
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But he sweeps away his enemies with an overwhelming flood; he pursues them all night long.
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Though the rain comes in torrents, and the floods rise and the storm winds beat against his house, it won’t collapse, for it is built on rock.
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For when the rains and floods come, and storm winds beat against his house, it will fall with a mighty crash.”
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“The world will be at ease —banquets and parties and weddings—just as it was in Noah’s time before the sudden coming of the Flood;
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people wouldn’t believe what was going to happen until the Flood actually arrived and took them all away. So shall my coming be.
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But all those who come and listen and obey me are like a man who builds a house on a strong foundation laid upon the underlying rock. When the floodwaters rise and break against the house, it stands firm, for it is strongly built.
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“But those who listen and don’t obey are like a man who builds a house without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it crumbles into a heap of ruins.”
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If you are filled with light within, with no dark corners, then your face will be radiant too, as though a floodlight is beamed upon you.”
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They ate and drank and married—everything just as usual right up to the day when Noah went into the ark and the Flood came and destroyed them all.
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Later, in one of his talks, Jesus said to the people, “I am the Light of the world. So if you follow me, you won’t be stumbling through the darkness, for living light will flood your path.”
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I have traveled many weary miles and have been often in great danger from flooded rivers and from robbers and from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the hands of the Gentiles. I have faced grave dangers from mobs in the cities and from death in the deserts and in the stormy seas and from men who claim to be brothers in Christ but are not.
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I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can see something of the future he has called you to share. I want you to realize that God has been made rich because we who are Christ’s have been given to him!
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Noah was another who trusted God. When he heard God’s warning about the future, Noah believed him even though there was then no sign of a flood, and wasting no time, he built the ark and saved his family. Noah’s belief in God was in direct contrast to the sin and disbelief of the rest of the world—which refused to obey—and because of his faith he became one of those whom God has accepted.
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spirits of those who, long before in the days of Noah, had refused to listen to God, though he waited patiently for them while Noah was building the ark. Yet only eight persons were saved from drowning in that terrible flood.
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That is why the Good News was preached even to those who were dead—killed by the flood—so that although their bodies were punished with death, they could still live in their spirits as God lives.
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And he did not spare any of the people who lived in ancient times before the flood except Noah, the one man who spoke up for God, and his family of seven. At that time God completely destroyed the whole world of ungodly men with the vast flood.
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They deliberately forget this fact: that God did destroy the world with a mighty flood long after he had made the heavens by the word of his command and had used the waters to form the earth and surround it.
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And from the Serpent’s mouth a vast flood of water gushed out and swept toward the woman in an effort to get rid of her;
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but the earth helped her by opening its mouth and swallowing the flood!
