Genesis 7:19

19 The waters rose even higher over the earth; they covered all of the highest mountains under the sky.

Genesis 7:19 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:19

And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth
Yet more and more, so that the people without the ark were obliged to remove, not only from the lower to the higher rooms in their houses, and to the tops of them, but to the highest trees; and when these were bore down, to the highest hills and mountains; and to those it was in vain to fly, by what follows:

and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were
covered:
whence it appears there were hills before the flood, and that these were not caused by it, and that the deluge was universal, since there was not a hill under the whole heaven but what was covered with it. In Deucalion's flood all men are said to perish, except a few who fled to the high mountains ^F14; which story seems to be hammered out of this account.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Apollodorus, de Deor. Origin. l. 1. p. 19.

Genesis 7:19 In-Context

17 The flood remained on the earth for forty days. The waters rose, lifted the ark, and it rode high above the earth.

18 The waters rose and spread out over the earth. The ark floated on the surface of the waters.

19 The waters rose even higher over the earth; they covered all of the highest mountains under the sky.

20 The waters rose twenty-three feet high, covering the mountains.

21 Every creature took its last breath: the things crawling on the ground, birds, livestock, wild animals, everything swarming on the ground, and every human being.