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Genesis 6:18 KJV
Genesis · chapter 6 · verse 18
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.Genesis 6:18 · King James Version
Genesis 6:18 in context
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.
17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
19And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- establishqûwmto riseH6965 →
- covenantbᵉrîytha compactH1285 →
- comebôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- sonsbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- wifeʼishshâha womanH802 →
- arktêbâha boxH8392 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-21