Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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Noah was now a very old man, even as men's years went then. Note,
(1.) The longer we live in this world the more we see of the miseries and calamities of it; it is therefore spoken of as the privilege of those that die young that their eyes shall not see the evil which is coming, 2Ki 22:20.
(2.) Sometimes God exercises his old servants with extraordinary trials of obedient patience. The oldest of Christ's soldiers must not promise themselves a discharge from their warfare till death discharge them. Still they must gird on their harness, and not boast as though they had put it off. As the year of the deluge is recorded, so,
2. We are told that it was in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, which is reckoned to be about the beginning of November; so that Noah had had a harvest just before, from which to victual his ark.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The second causes that concurred to this deluge. Observe,
1. In the self-same day that Noah was fixed in the ark, the inundation began. Note,
(1.) Desolating judgments come not till God has provided for the security of his own people; see Ge 19:22, I can do nothing till thou become thither: and we find (Re 7:3) that the winds are held till the servants of God are sealed.
(2.) When good men are removed judgments are not far off; for they are taken away from the evil to come, Isa 57:1. When they are called into the chambers, hidden in the grave, hidden in heaven, then God is coming out of his place to punish, Isa 26:20, 21.