English Standard Version
Genesis 6:11
11Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- New International Version (NIV)Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Now God saw that the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence.
Context of Genesis 6:11
9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. 10And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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וַתִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת הָאָ֖רֶץ לִפְנֵ֣י הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א הָאָ֖רֶץ חָמָֽס׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Genesis 6:11
- Genesis 7:1Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
- Genesis 10:9He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord."
- Genesis 13:13Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 34:27because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.
- Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
- Romans 2:13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
- Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
- Psalms 11:5The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
- Psalms 55:9Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
- Psalms 140:11Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!
- Isaiah 60:18Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
- Jeremiah 6:7As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
- Ezekiel 8:17Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
- Ezekiel 28:16In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
- Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;
- Habakkuk 1:2O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save?
Commentaries on Genesis 6:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11The earth also was corrupt - See the note on Genesis 6:5.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9-22Verses 9-22 - Section VI - The Deluge - XXIII. The Ark 9. דור dôr “age, time from birth to death,” applied either to an individual or the whole contemporary race, running parallel with some leading individual. Hence, the “race” or “generation” living during that time. 14. תבה tēbâh “chest, ark.” It is used only of this vessel of Noah‘s construction, and of the little vessel in which Moses was put Exodus 2:3, Exodus 2:5. The root, according to Furst…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-11Verses 8-11 Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men; they hated and persecuted him, because both by his life and preaching he condemned the world: but he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and this made him more truly honourable than the men of renown. Let this be our chief desire, let us labour that we may be accepted of him. When the rest of the world was wicked, Noah kept his integrity. God's good-will towards Noah produced this good work in him…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-13See Genesis 6:5–7. violence: The Hebrew word here is khamas. Murder had greatly corrupted Cain's descendants (4:8, 23–24).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. the earth was filled with violence--In the absence of any well-regulated government it is easy to imagine what evils would arise. Men did what was right in their own eyes, and, having no fear of God, destruction and misery were in their ways.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Genesis 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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