Genesis 9:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

Genesis 9:20 —

Old words in this verse

husbandman: — farmer, one who tends the land.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Deuteronomy 20:6
And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
Isaiah 28:24-26
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? …
Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Genesis 3:18-19
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; …

Commentary

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

(vv. 18-23)

Here is, I. Noah’s family and employment. The names of his sons are again mentioned (Gen. 9:18, 19) as those from whom the whole earth was overspread, by which it appears that Noah, after the flood, had no more children: all the world came from these three. Note, God, when he pleases, can make a little one to become a thousand, and greatly increase the latter end of those whose beginning was small…

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

(vv. 20)

20. And Noah ... planted a vineyard--Noah had been probably bred to the culture of the soil, and resumed that employment on leaving the ark.