Discovery Box2 Peter 2:5
Context2:5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, 1 when God 2 brought a flood on an ungodly world, 3
Genesis 7:10-23
Context7:10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth. 4
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep 5 burst open and the floodgates of the heavens 6 were opened. 7:12 And the rain fell 7 on the earth forty days and forty nights.
7:13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives. 8 7:14 They entered, 9 along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings. 10 7:15 Pairs 11 of all creatures 12 that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah. 7:16 Those that entered were male and female, 13 just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.
7:17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth. 7:18 The waters completely overwhelmed 14 the earth, and the ark floated 15 on the surface of the waters. 7:19 The waters completely inundated 16 the earth so that even 17 all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered. 7:20 The waters rose more than twenty feet 18 above the mountains. 19 7:21 And all living things 20 that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind. 7:22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life 21 in its nostrils died. 7:23 So the Lord 22 destroyed 23 every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. 24 They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived. 25
Genesis 9:15
Context9:15 then I will remember my covenant with you 26 and with all living creatures of all kinds. 27 Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy 28 all living things. 29
Job 12:15
Context12:15 If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; 30
if he releases them, 31 they destroy 32 the land.
Matthew 24:38-39
Context24:38 For in those days before the flood, people 33 were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. 24:39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. 34 It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. 35
Luke 17:27
Context17:27 People 36 were eating, 37 they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then 38 the flood came and destroyed them all. 39
[2:5] 1 tn “Along with seven others” is implied in the cryptic, “the eighth, Noah.” A more literal translation thus would be, “he did protect Noah [as] the eighth…”
[2:5] 2 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been repeated here for clarity, although this is somewhat redundant with the beginning of v. 4.
[2:5] 3 tn Grk “a world of the ungodly.”
[7:11] 5 tn The Hebrew term תְּהוֹם (tÿhom, “deep”) refers to the watery deep, the salty ocean – especially the primeval ocean that surrounds and underlies the earth (see Gen 1:2).
[7:11] 6 sn On the prescientific view of the sky reflected here, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World (AnBib), 46.
[7:13] 8 tn Heb “On that very day Noah entered, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.”
[7:14] 9 tn The verb “entered” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[7:14] 10 tn Heb “every bird, every wing.”
[7:15] 11 tn Heb “two two” meaning “in twos.”
[7:16] 13 tn Heb “Those that went in, male and female from all flesh they went in.”
[7:18] 14 tn Heb “and the waters were great and multiplied exceedingly.” The first verb in the sequence is וַיִּגְבְּרוּ (vayyigbÿru, from גָּבַר, gavar), meaning “to become great, mighty.” The waters did not merely rise; they “prevailed” over the earth, overwhelming it.
[7:19] 16 tn Heb “and the waters were great exceedingly, exceedingly.” The repetition emphasizes the depth of the waters.
[7:20] 18 tn Heb “rose fifteen cubits.” Since a cubit is considered by most authorities to be about eighteen inches, this would make the depth 22.5 feet. This figure might give the modern reader a false impression of exactness, however, so in the translation the phrase “fifteen cubits” has been rendered “more than twenty feet.”
[7:20] 19 tn Heb “the waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward and they covered the mountains.” Obviously, a flood of twenty feet did not cover the mountains; the statement must mean the flood rose about twenty feet above the highest mountain.
[7:22] 21 tn Heb “everything which [has] the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils from all which is in the dry land.”
[7:23] 22 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the
[7:23] 23 tn Heb “wiped away” (cf. NRSV “blotted out”).
[7:23] 24 tn Heb “from man to animal to creeping thing and to the bird of the sky.”
[7:23] 25 tn The Hebrew verb שָׁאָר (sha’ar) means “to be left over; to survive” in the Niphal verb stem. It is the word used in later biblical texts for the remnant that escapes judgment. See G. F. Hasel, “Semantic Values of Derivatives of the Hebrew Root só’r,” AUSS 11 (1973): 152-69.
[9:15] 26 tn Heb “which [is] between me and between you.”
[9:15] 28 tn Heb “to destroy.”
[12:15] 30 tc The LXX has a clarification: “he will dry the earth.”
[12:15] 31 sn The verse is focusing on the two extremes of drought and flood. Both are described as being under the power of God.
[12:15] 32 tn The verb הָפַךְ (hafakh) means “to overthrow; to destroy; to overwhelm.” It was used in Job 9:5 for “overturning” mountains. The word is used in Genesis for the destruction of Sodom.
[24:38] 33 tn Grk “they,” but in an indefinite sense, “people.”
[24:39] 34 sn Like the flood that came and took them all away, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.
[24:39] 35 tn Grk “So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.”
[17:27] 36 tn Grk “They.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.
[17:27] 37 tn These verbs (“eating… drinking… marrying… being given in marriage”) are all progressive imperfects, describing action in progress at that time.
[17:27] 38 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
[17:27] 39 sn Like that flood came and destroyed them all, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.
