 | John Lee Comstock - 1836 - 372 pągines
...others seem to claim an ante-diluvian antiquity.—Sharon Turner. IN GENESIS. The Deluge of Noali. " And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;...hills that were under the whole heaven were covered." V. 19. Genesis, chapter vii. The Deluge happened AM 1056, being 2348 years before the Christian era,... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1836
...and earthquakes ; and " the windows of heaven were opened :" floods of rain rushed from the sky: " the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and...hills that were under the whole heaven were covered." The ark, containing the sole remnants of the human race and of the animated world, floated on the boundless... | |
 | John Wesley - 1836
...surface. It is not easy to reconcile this hypothesis with those words of Moses, " The waters prevailed; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward [above the highest] did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered," Gen. vii, 19-23. We have... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836
...and the windows of heaven were opened, and the ram was upon the earth forty days and forty nights ; and the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high hills which were under the whole heaven were covered; and all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both... | |
 | John Stephenson (author of Sacred history.) - 1836
...The depth and duration of the flood are both mentioned. "Fifteen Cubits (or about twenty five feet) upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered; and all that was on the dry land died." And the waters prevailed upon the earth, a hundred and fifty days.... | |
 | William Kirby - 1837 - 519 pągines
...the breath of life from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." And again—" And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth,...hills that were under the, whole heaven were covered : Jifit'cn cubits upwards did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered." It is also stated,... | |
 | 1837
...life from under heuxen; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." And a»ain—" And the wafers prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the....hills that were under the whole heaven were covered : Jifleen cubitu upwards did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered." It is also stated,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1837 - 83 pągines
...tops of the highest mountains. If the Professor will not permit us, the Bible will. Gen. vii. 19, " And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high hills which were under the whole heaven were covered; fifteen cubits and upwards did the waters prevail."... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1837
...fifty days. prevailed of life., of all that was in the dry *• *J i656. exceedingly upon the earth ; w and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. land, died. 771-1 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail ; and the mountains were covered.... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1838
...prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth : and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;...waters prevail ; and the mountains were covered." That is, the waters arose,to be more than eight yards deep on the top of the highest mountains, so... | |
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And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the .high hills, that were under the •whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered, and all in whose nostrils was the breath of... 
