Genesis 7:19

19 En de wateren namen gans zeer de overhand op de aarde, zodat alle hoge bergen, die onder den ganse hemel zijn, bedekt werden.

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 En die vloed was veertig dagen op de aarde, en de wateren vermeerderden, en hieven de ark op, zodat zij oprees boven de aarde.

18 En de wateren namen de overhand, en vermeerderden zeer op de aarde; en de ark ging op de wateren.

19 En de wateren namen gans zeer de overhand op de aarde, zodat alle hoge bergen, die onder den ganse hemel zijn, bedekt werden.

20 Vijftien ellen omhoog namen de wateren de overhand, en de bergen werden bedekt.

21 En alle vlees, dat zich op de aarde roerde, gaf den geest, van het gevogelte, en van het vee, en van het wild gedierte, en van al het kruipend gedierte, dat op de aarde kroop, en alle mens.