16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-21)Here it appears indeed that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord . God’s favour to him was plainly intimated in what he said of him, Gen. 6:8-10, where his name is mentioned five times in five lines, when once might have served to make the sense clear, as if the Holy Ghost took a pleasure in perpetuating his memory; but it appears much more in what he says to him in these verses—the informatio…
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