Genesis 7:11

New American Bible - revised edition

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month: on that day All the fountains of the great abyss burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

Cross References

Genesis 1:7

God made the dome, and it separated the water below the dome from the water above the dome. And so it happened.

Genesis 6:17

I, on my part, am about to bring the flood waters on the earth, to destroy all creatures under the sky in which there is the breath of life; everything on earth shall perish.

Genesis 7:6

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 8:14

In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Genesis 8:2

The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back.

2 Kings 7:19

The adjutant had answered the man of God, “Even if the Lord were to make windows in heaven, how could this happen?” And Elisha had replied, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”

2 Kings 7:2

But the adjutant, upon whose arm the king leaned, answered the man of God, “Even if the Lord were to make windows in heaven, how could this happen?” Elisha said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”

Job 12:15

He holds back the waters and there is drought; he sends them forth and they overwhelm the land.

Job 28:4

He breaks open a shaft far from habitation, unknown to human feet; suspended, far from people, they sway.

Job 38:16

Have you entered into the sources of the sea, or walked about on the bottom of the deep?

Job 38:37

Who counts the clouds with wisdom? Who tilts the water jars of heaven

Psalm 33:7

He gathered the waters of the sea as a mound; he sets the deep into storage vaults.

Psalm 74:15

You opened up springs and torrents, brought dry land out of the primeval waters.

Proverbs 3:20

By his knowledge the depths are split, and the clouds drop down dew.

Isaiah 24:18

One who flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit; One who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows on high are open and the foundations of the earth shake.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth will burst asunder, the earth will be shaken apart, the earth will be convulsed.

Jeremiah 5:22

Should you not fear me—oracle of the Lord— should you not tremble before me? I made the sandy shore the sea’s limit, which by eternal decree it may not overstep. Toss though it may, it is to no avail; though its billows roar, they cannot overstep.

Jeremiah 51:16

When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar, he summons clouds from the ends of the earth, Makes lightning flash in the rain, and brings out winds from their storehouses.

Ezekiel 26:19

Indeed thus says the Lord God: When I make you a ruined city like cities no longer inhabited, When I churn up the deep and its mighty waters cover you,

Malachi 3:10

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, That there may be food in my house. Put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, And see if I do not open the floodgates of heaven for you, and pour down upon you blessing without measure!

Matthew 24:38

In [those] days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day that Noah entered the ark.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

2 Peter 3:6

through these the world that then existed was destroyed, deluged with water.