Genesis 7:11

New International Version

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Cross References

Genesis 1:7

So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.

Genesis 6:17

I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

Genesis 7:6

Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.

Genesis 8:14

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

Genesis 8:2

Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

2 Kings 7:19

The officer had said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” The man of God had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”

2 Kings 7:2

The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”

Job 12:15

If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.

Job 28:4

Far from human dwellings they cut a shaft, in places untouched by human feet; far from other people they dangle and sway.

Job 38:16

“Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

Job 38:37

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens

Psalm 33:7

He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; he puts the deep into storehouses.

Psalm 74:15

It was you who opened up springs and streams; you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Proverbs 3:20

by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.

Isaiah 24:18

Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit; whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is violently shaken.

Jeremiah 5:22

Should you not fear me?” declares the Lord. “Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.

Jeremiah 51:16

When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Ezekiel 26:19

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths over you and its vast waters cover you,

Malachi 3:10

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

Matthew 24:38

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

2 Peter 3:6

By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.