Genesis 7:11

In Noah's six hundredth year the fountains of the deep burst open and the windows of heaven were opened. The flood comes from both below and above.

Cross-references · 19

• Gen 8:2The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
• Prov 8:28–29when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
• Mal 3:10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
• Amos 9:5–6For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
• 2 Kgs 7:19and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
• Ps 78:23–24Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
• Jer 51:16When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
• Jer 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail; though they roar, yet they can’t pass over it.’
• Job 38:8–11“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
• Ps 33:7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
• Gen 1:7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
• 2 Kgs 7:2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
• Ezek 26:19For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;
• Isa 24:19The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
• Gen 6:17I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
• Ps 74:15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
• Matt 24:38For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,
• Job 28:4He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
• 1 Th 5:3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

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