They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Parallel translations
- KJV They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
- BSB People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
- NKJV They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
- NASB people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, and they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
- NLT In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them all.
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Quick answer
In Noah's day people carried on normal life until the flood suddenly destroyed them all. Complacency left them unprepared for judgment.
Overview
Eating, drinking, and marrying are ordinary, but the people had no regard for God or coming judgment. The flood came suddenly and was total. Jesus uses this to warn that his return will likewise overtake an unwatchful world, urging present readiness rather than presumption.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Luke 12:19–20I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
- 1 Th 5:1–3But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
- Luke 16:19–23“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
- Isa 22:12–14In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
- Deut 6:10–12It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build,
- Job 21:9–13Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
- Deut 8:12–14lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;
- 1 Sam 25:36–38Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.
- Isa 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
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