Genesis 8:2

2 The underground springs were shut off, the windows of Heaven closed and the rain quit.

Genesis 8:2 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 8:2

The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven,
were stopped
The passages which let out the subterraneous waters in great quantity upon the earth, and the clouds of heaven, which poured down water upon it like spouts, were stopped from sending forth any more, as they had from the first of the flood unto one hundred and fifty days from thence: Jarchi observes, that it is not said that "all" the fountains of the deep, as when they were broken up, ( Genesis 7:11 ) because some of them were left open for the use and benefit of the world; besides, some must be left for the return of the waters: and the rain from heaven was restrained:
which seems to confirm what has been before observed, that after the rain of forty days and nights it ceased not to rain, more or less, though not so vehemently, until the end of an hundred and fifty days, and then it entirely ceased.

Genesis 8:2 In-Context

1 Then God turned his attention to Noah and all the wild animals and farm animals with him on the ship. God caused the wind to blow and the floodwaters began to go down.

2 The underground springs were shut off, the windows of Heaven closed and the rain quit.

3 Inch by inch the water lowered. After 150 days the worst was over.

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ship landed on the Ararat mountain range.

5 The water kept going down until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains came into view.