Genesis 7:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 7:24 —

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Genesis 8:3-4
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. …

Commentary

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

(vv. 21-24)

Here is, I. The general destruction of all flesh by the waters of the flood. Come, and see the desolations which God makes in the earth (Ps. 46:8), and how he lays heaps upon heaps. Never did death triumph, from its first entrance unto this day, as it did then. Come, and see Death upon his pale horse, and hell following with him, Rev. 6:7, 8. 1. All the cattle, fowl, and creeping things, died, exc…

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

(vv. 24)

24. an hundred and fifty days--a period of five months. Though long before that every living creature must have been drowned, such a lengthened continuance of the flood was designed to manifest God’s stern displeasure at sin and sinners. Think of Noah during such a crisis. We learn (Eze 14:14) that he was a man who lived and breathed habitually in an atmosphere of devotion; and having in the exerc…