Genesis 9:29 Study Bible: All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, then he died.

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So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

So Noah lived a total of 950 years
Noah's lifespan of 950 years is significant, as it places him among the longest-lived individuals recorded in the Bible. This longevity is consistent with the antediluvian (pre-Flood) patriarchs, who often lived for several centuries. The extended lifespans before the Flood are often attributed to the pristine conditions of the early earth, as well as God's blessing. After the Flood, lifespans gradually decreased, which some scholars suggest could be due to environmental changes or divine intervention. Noah's long life allowed him to witness significant events, including the repopulation of the earth and the establishment of God's covenant with humanity through the rainbow. His life serves as a bridge between the pre-Flood and post-Flood worlds, marking a transition in human history.

and then he died
The phrase "and then he died" is a common refrain in the genealogies of Genesis, emphasizing the mortality of even the most righteous individuals. Despite Noah's righteousness and his role in God's plan to preserve humanity, he was not exempt from the curse of death introduced in Genesis 3. This serves as a reminder of the consequences of sin and the universal nature of death. Noah's death marks the end of an era, as he was the last of the pre-Flood patriarchs. His passing signifies the closing of a chapter in biblical history and the continuation of God's redemptive plan through his descendants, particularly through the line of Shem, leading ultimately to the coming of Jesus Christ. Noah's life and death foreshadow the need for a savior who would conquer death, a role fulfilled by Christ, who offers eternal life to those who believe in Him.

Persons / Places / Events

1. Noah
A righteous man chosen by God to survive the Flood and repopulate the earth. His life exemplifies obedience and faithfulness.

2. Post-Flood Earth
The world after the Flood, where Noah and his family began anew, establishing a covenant with God.

3. The Flood
A cataclysmic event that reshaped the earth and marked a new beginning for humanity under God's covenant.

4. Covenant with Noah
God's promise to never again destroy the earth with a flood, symbolized by the rainbow.

5. Noah's Death
Marks the end of an era and the transition to the generations that follow, emphasizing the mortality of even the most faithful servants of God.

Teaching Points

The Legacy of Faithfulness
Noah's life of 950 years is a testament to his enduring faith and obedience to God. His legacy challenges us to live faithfully, regardless of the length of our days.

The Certainty of Mortality
Despite his righteousness and long life, Noah's death reminds us of the inevitability of mortality. It encourages us to focus on eternal values and our relationship with God.

The Importance of Covenant
Noah's life and the covenant God made with him highlight the importance of living in a covenant relationship with God, marked by trust and obedience.

The Role of Righteousness
Noah's righteousness set him apart in a corrupt world. We are called to live righteously, standing firm in our faith amidst societal pressures.

The Impact of Obedience
Noah's obedience led to the preservation of humanity. Our obedience to God can have far-reaching impacts, influencing generations to come.

Bible Study Questions

1. How does Noah's long life and eventual death influence our understanding of God's promises and human mortality?

2. In what ways can we emulate Noah's faith and obedience in our daily lives?

3. How does the covenant with Noah foreshadow the New Covenant established through Jesus Christ?

4. What lessons can we learn from Noah's righteousness in a corrupt world, and how can we apply them today?

5. How does the account of Noah encourage us to trust in God's faithfulness and promises, even when we face challenges?

Connections to Other Scriptures

Genesis 5:27
Connects to the longevity of the patriarchs, showing a pattern of long lifespans before the Flood.

Hebrews 11:7
Highlights Noah's faith and obedience, which are central themes in his life account.

2 Peter 2:5
Refers to Noah as a "preacher of righteousness," emphasizing his role in warning others and living a godly life.

Genesis 6:9
Describes Noah as a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, walking faithfully with God.

Genesis 8:20-22
Details Noah's worship and God's response, establishing the covenant and God's promise to humanity.

Sermons

The Threefold Distribution of the Human Race	R.A. Redford	Genesis 9:18-29
Lessons	G. Hughes, B. D.	Genesis 9:28-29
Noah's Life and Death	G. Hughes, B. D.	Genesis 9:28-29
Review of the Chapter	The Congregational Pulpit	Genesis 9:28-29
The Years of Noah: Their Solemn Lessons	T. H. Leale.	Genesis 9:28-29

People

Ham, Japheth, Noah, Shem

Places

Tigris-Euphrates Region

Topics

950, Dieth, Fifty, Hundred, Nine, Noah

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Genesis 9:29

     1655   hundreds and thousands
     4016   life, human
     5204   age
     5726   old age, attainment

Genesis 9:24-29

5106 Noah

Library

Capital Punishment
Eversley. Quinquagesima Sunday, 1872. Genesis ix. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6. "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. . . . Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you . . . But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require …
Charles Kingsley—All Saints' Day and Other Sermons

Noah's Flood
(Quinquagesima Sunday.) GENESIS ix. 13. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. We all know the history of Noah's flood. What have we learnt from that history? What were we intended to learn from it? What thoughts should we have about it? There are many thoughts which we may have. We may think how the flood came to pass; what means God used to make it rain forty days; what is meant by breaking up the fountains of the great deep. We may …
Charles Kingsley—The Gospel of the Pentateuch

Death.
PSALM CIV. 20, 21. Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. Let me say a few words on this text. It is one which has been a comfort to me again and again. It is one which, if rightly understood, ought to give comfort to pitiful and tender-hearted persons. Have you never been touched by, never been even shocked by, the mystery of pain and death? I do not speak now of pain and death …
Charles Kingsley—Westminster Sermons

Covenanting Enforced by the Grant of Covenant Signs and Seals.
To declare emphatically that the people of God are a covenant people, various signs were in sovereignty vouchsafed. The lights in the firmament of heaven were appointed to be for signs, affording direction to the mariner, the husbandman, and others. Miracles wrought on memorable occasions, were constituted signs or tokens of God's universal government. The gracious grant of covenant signs was made in order to proclaim the truth of the existence of God's covenant with his people, to urge the performance …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

That the Ruler Should Be, through Humility, a Companion of Good Livers, But, through the Zeal of Righteousness, Rigid against the vices of Evildoers.
The ruler should be, through humility, a companion of good livers, and, through the zeal of righteousness, rigid against the vices of evil-doers; so that in nothing he prefer himself to the good, and yet, when the fault of the bad requires it, he be at once conscious of the power of his priority; to the end that, while among his subordinates who live well he waives his rank and accounts them as his equals, he may not fear to execute the laws of rectitude towards the perverse. For, as I remember to …
Leo the Great—Writings of Leo the Great

The Doctrine of Non-Resistance to Evil by Force Has Been Professed by a Minority of Men from the Very Foundation of Christianity. Of the Book "What
CHAPTER I. THE DOCTRINE OF NON-RESISTANCE TO EVIL BY FORCE HAS BEEN PROFESSED BY A MINORITY OF MEN FROM THE VERY FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY. Of the Book "What I Believe"--The Correspondence Evoked by it-- Letters from Quakers--Garrison's Declaration--Adin Ballou, his Works, his Catechism--Helchitsky's "Net of Faith"--The Attitude of the World to Works Elucidating Christ's Teaching--Dymond's Book "On War"--Musser's "Non-resistance Asserted"--Attitude of the Government in 1818 to Men who Refused to …
Leo Tolstoy—The Kingdom of God is within you

Original Righteousness.
"For in Him we live and move, and have our being: as certain also of your own poets have said. For we are also His offspring." --Acts xvii. 28. It is the peculiar characteristic of the Reformed Confession that more than any other it humbles the sinner and exalts the sinless man. To disparage man is unscriptural. Being a sinner, fallen and no longer a real man, he must be humbled, rebuked, and inwardly broken. But the divinely created man, realizing the divine purpose or restored by omnipotent grace …
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit

The Sixth Commandment
Thou shalt not kill.' Exod 20: 13. In this commandment is a sin forbidden, which is murder, Thou shalt not kill,' and a duty implied, which is, to preserve our own life, and the life of others. The sin forbidden is murder: Thou shalt not kill.' Here two things are to be understood, the not injuring another, nor ourselves. I. The not injuring another. [1] We must not injure another in his name. A good name is a precious balsam.' It is a great cruelty to murder a man in his name. We injure others in …
Thomas Watson—The Ten Commandments

Being Made Archbishop of Armagh, He Suffers Many Troubles. Peace Being Made, from Being Archbishop of Armagh He Becomes Bishop of Down.
[Sidenote: 1129] 19. (12). Meanwhile[365] it happened that Archbishop Cellach[366] fell sick: he it was who ordained Malachy deacon, presbyter and bishop: and knowing that he was dying he made a sort of testament[367] to the effect that Malachy ought to succeed him,[368] because none seemed worthier to be bishop of the first see. This he gave in charge to those who were present, this he commanded to the absent, this to the two kings of Munster[369] and to the magnates of the land he specially enjoined …
H. J. Lawlor—St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh

Mosaic Cosmogony.
ON the revival of science in the 16th century, some of the earliest conclusions at which philosophers arrived were found to be at variance with popular and long-established belief. The Ptolemaic system of astronomy, which had then full possession of the minds of men, contemplated the whole visible universe from the earth as the immovable centre of things. Copernicus changed the point of view, and placing the beholder in the sun, at once reduced the earth to an inconspicuous globule, a merely subordinate …
Frederick Temple—Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World

Mount Zion.
"For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them: for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: but ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto …
Thomas Charles Edwards—The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews

Covenanting According to the Purposes of God.
Since every revealed purpose of God, implying that obedience to his law will be given, is a demand of that obedience, the announcement of his Covenant, as in his sovereignty decreed, claims, not less effectively than an explicit law, the fulfilment of its duties. A representation of a system of things pre-determined in order that the obligations of the Covenant might be discharged; various exhibitions of the Covenant as ordained; and a description of the children of the Covenant as predestinated …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

Covenanting Predicted in Prophecy.
The fact of Covenanting, under the Old Testament dispensations, being approved of God, gives a proof that it was proper then, which is accompanied by the voice of prophecy, affording evidence that even in periods then future it should no less be proper. The argument for the service that is afforded by prophecy is peculiar, and, though corresponding with evidence from other sources, is independent. Because that God willed to make known truth through his servants the prophets, we should receive it …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

The Promise to the Patriarchs.
A great epoch is, in Genesis, ushered in with the history of the time of the Patriarchs. Luther says: "This is the third period in which Holy Scripture begins the history of the Church with a new family." In a befitting manner, the representation is opened in Gen. xii. 1-3 by an account of the first revelation of God, given to Abraham at Haran, in which the way is opened up for all that follows, and in which the dispensations of God are brought before us in a rapid survey. Abraham is to forsake …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

Discourse on Spiritual Food and True Discipleship. Peter's Confession.
(at the Synagogue in Capernaum.) ^D John VI. 22-71. ^d 22 On the morrow [the morrow after Jesus fed the five thousand] the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea [on the east side, opposite Capernaum] saw that there was no other boat there, save one, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples went away alone 23 (howbeit there came boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they ate the bread after that the Lord had given thanks): 24 when the multitude …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Genesis
The Old Testament opens very impressively. In measured and dignified language it introduces the story of Israel's origin and settlement upon the land of Canaan (Gen.--Josh.) by the story of creation, i.-ii. 4a, and thus suggests, at the very beginning, the far-reaching purpose and the world-wide significance of the people and religion of Israel. The narrative has not travelled far till it becomes apparent that its dominant interests are to be religious and moral; for, after a pictorial sketch of …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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