Genesis 7:11

New English Translation

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 deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Cross References

Genesis 1:7

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

Genesis 6:17

I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

Genesis 7:6

Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

Genesis 8:14

And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

Genesis 8:2

The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

2 Kings 7:19

But the officer replied to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” Elisha said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”

2 Kings 7:2

An officer who was the king’s right-hand man responded to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” Elisha said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”

Job 12:15

If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

Job 28:4

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

Job 38:16

Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

Job 38:37

Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

Psalm 33:7

He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.

Psalm 74:15

You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

Proverbs 3:20

By his knowledge the primordial sea was broken open, and the clouds drip down dew.

Isaiah 24:18

The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth is broken in pieces, the earth is ripped to shreds, the earth shakes violently.

Jeremiah 5:22

“You should fear me!” says the Lord. “You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”

Jeremiah 51:16

When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

Ezekiel 26:19

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,

Malachi 3:10

“Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the Lord who rules over all, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all.

Matthew 24:38

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

Now when they are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.

2 Peter 3:6

Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.