Genesis 7:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Genesis 7:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 3:23
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
Psalms 104:6
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-20)

We are here told, I. How long the flood was increasing— forty days, Gen. 7:17. The profane world, who believed not that it would come, probably when it came flattered themselves with hopes that it would soon abate and never come to extremity; but still it increased, it prevailed. Note, 1. When God judges he will overcome. If he begin, he will make an end; his way is perfect, both in judgment and m…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Fifteen cubits upward ... and the mountains were covered--twenty-two and a half feet above the summits of the highest hills. The language is not consistent with the theory of a partial deluge.