The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven, were stopped,…. The passages which let out the subterraneous waters in great quantity upon the earth, and the clouds of heaven, which poured down water upon it like spouts, were stopped from sending forth any more, as they had from the first of the flood unto one hundred and fifty days from thence: Jarchi observes, that it is not said that “all” the fountains of the deep, as when they were broken up, Ge 7:11 because some of them were left open for the use and benefit of the world; besides, some must be left for the return of the waters:
and the rain from heaven was restrained: which seems to confirm what has been before observed, that after the rain of forty days and nights it ceased not to rain, more or less, though not so vehemently, until the end of an hundred and fifty days, and then it entirely ceased.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Ver. 2. And the rain from heaven was restrained. ] These four keys, say the Rabbis, God keeps under his own belt: 1. Of the womb; 2. Of the grave; 3. Of the rain; 4. Of the heart. “He openeth, and no man shutteth; he shutteth and no man openeth”. Rev 3:7
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
windows. Hebrew. ‘arubboth. See note on Gen 7:11.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
fountains: Gen 7:11, Pro 8:28, Jon 2:3
the rain: Job 37:11-13, Job 38:37, Mat 8:9, Mat 8:26, Mat 8:27
Reciprocal: Job 12:15 – Behold Psa 29:10 – sitteth