Genesis 9:9 Study Bible: "And as for me, look, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

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"Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

Behold, I now establish My covenant with you
The word "Behold" signals the importance of the statement that follows, drawing attention to God's direct communication. The concept of a covenant is central to biblical theology, representing a solemn agreement initiated by God. This covenant with Noah follows the flood, marking a new beginning for humanity. It is a unilateral covenant, meaning God alone sets the terms and ensures its fulfillment. This covenant is a continuation of God's redemptive plan, which began with Adam and will culminate in the New Covenant through Jesus Christ. The establishment of this covenant signifies God's commitment to creation and His desire for a relationship with humanity.

and your descendants after you
This phrase emphasizes the perpetual nature of the covenant, extending beyond Noah to all future generations. It underscores the idea of generational blessing and responsibility, a recurring theme in Scripture. The descendants of Noah would repopulate the earth, and this covenant assures them of God's ongoing faithfulness. This promise is inclusive, covering all of humanity, as Noah's descendants spread across the globe. It foreshadows the Abrahamic covenant, where God promises to bless all nations through Abraham's seed, ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who offers salvation to all people.

Persons / Places / Events

1. God
The divine being who initiates the covenant with Noah and his descendants. This reflects God's sovereignty and His role as a covenant-maker.

2. Noah
The righteous man chosen by God to survive the flood and repopulate the earth. He is the recipient of God's covenant.

3. Descendants of Noah
All future generations stemming from Noah, indicating the perpetual nature of God's covenant.

4. Covenant
A solemn agreement or promise made by God, signifying a binding relationship between God and humanity.

5. Post-Flood Earth
The setting in which God establishes His covenant, marking a new beginning for humanity.

Teaching Points

God's Faithfulness
God's covenant with Noah demonstrates His unwavering faithfulness to His promises. Believers can trust in God's commitments, knowing He is consistent and reliable.

The Universality of God's Covenant
The covenant with Noah extends to all his descendants, symbolizing God's inclusive love and care for all humanity. Christians are called to reflect this inclusivity in their relationships.

Covenant as Relationship
A covenant is not merely a contract but a relationship. Believers are invited into a personal relationship with God, characterized by mutual commitment and love.

New Beginnings
Just as the post-flood world marked a new beginning for humanity, believers are offered new beginnings through repentance and faith in Christ.

Responsibility of Descendants
As descendants of Noah, there is a responsibility to uphold the values and commitments of the covenant, living in a way that honors God.

Bible Study Questions

1. How does understanding God's covenant with Noah enhance our view of His promises today?

2. In what ways can we see the theme of covenant throughout the Bible, and how does it culminate in the New Testament?

3. How can we apply the concept of God's faithfulness in our daily lives, especially during challenging times?

4. What responsibilities do we have as spiritual descendants of Noah in maintaining our relationship with God?

5. How can the idea of new beginnings in Genesis 9:9 inspire us to seek transformation and renewal in our spiritual journey?

Connections to Other Scriptures

Genesis 6:18
This verse introduces the concept of God's covenant with Noah, which is fulfilled in Genesis 9:9.

Genesis 17:7
God's covenant with Abraham, which parallels the covenant with Noah, emphasizing God's ongoing relationship with His people.

Exodus 19:5
The covenant with Israel at Sinai, showing the continuity of God's covenantal promises throughout the Bible.

Hebrews 13:20
The New Covenant through Jesus Christ, which fulfills and extends the promises made to Noah and his descendants.

Sermons

Divine Covenants	T. H. Leale.	Genesis 9:8-11
God's Covenant with Noah	C. Kingsley, M. A.	Genesis 9:8-11
God's Covenant with Noah	A. Fuller.	Genesis 9:8-11
God's Covenant with the New Humanity	T. H. Leale.	Genesis 9:8-11
The Covenant with Noah	A. P. Foster.	Genesis 9:8-11
The Covenant with Noah	D. C. Hughes, M. A.	Genesis 9:8-11
The Scheme of Providence	R. S. Candlish, D. D.	Genesis 9:8-11
The New Noachic Covenant Established	R.A. Redford	Genesis 9:8-17

People

Ham, Japheth, Noah, Shem

Places

Tigris-Euphrates Region

Topics

Agreement, Behold, Covenant, Descendants, Establish, Establishing, Myself, Offspring, Seed, Truly

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Genesis 9:1-17

7203 ark, Noah's

Genesis 9:8-9

5106 Noah

Genesis 9:8-10

4604 animals, nature of

Genesis 9:8-11

6667 grace, in OT

Genesis 9:8-17

     1347   covenant, with Noah
     5467   promises, divine
     7227   flood, the

Genesis 9:9-11

1055 God, grace and mercy

Library

Capital Punishment
Eversley. Quinquagesima Sunday, 1872. Genesis ix. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6. "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. . . . Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you . . . But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require …
Charles Kingsley—All Saints' Day and Other Sermons

Noah's Flood
(Quinquagesima Sunday.) GENESIS ix. 13. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. We all know the history of Noah's flood. What have we learnt from that history? What were we intended to learn from it? What thoughts should we have about it? There are many thoughts which we may have. We may think how the flood came to pass; what means God used to make it rain forty days; what is meant by breaking up the fountains of the great deep. We may …
Charles Kingsley—The Gospel of the Pentateuch

Death.
PSALM CIV. 20, 21. Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. Let me say a few words on this text. It is one which has been a comfort to me again and again. It is one which, if rightly understood, ought to give comfort to pitiful and tender-hearted persons. Have you never been touched by, never been even shocked by, the mystery of pain and death? I do not speak now of pain and death …
Charles Kingsley—Westminster Sermons

Covenanting Enforced by the Grant of Covenant Signs and Seals.
To declare emphatically that the people of God are a covenant people, various signs were in sovereignty vouchsafed. The lights in the firmament of heaven were appointed to be for signs, affording direction to the mariner, the husbandman, and others. Miracles wrought on memorable occasions, were constituted signs or tokens of God's universal government. The gracious grant of covenant signs was made in order to proclaim the truth of the existence of God's covenant with his people, to urge the performance …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

That the Ruler Should Be, through Humility, a Companion of Good Livers, But, through the Zeal of Righteousness, Rigid against the vices of Evildoers.
The ruler should be, through humility, a companion of good livers, and, through the zeal of righteousness, rigid against the vices of evil-doers; so that in nothing he prefer himself to the good, and yet, when the fault of the bad requires it, he be at once conscious of the power of his priority; to the end that, while among his subordinates who live well he waives his rank and accounts them as his equals, he may not fear to execute the laws of rectitude towards the perverse. For, as I remember to …
Leo the Great—Writings of Leo the Great

The Doctrine of Non-Resistance to Evil by Force Has Been Professed by a Minority of Men from the Very Foundation of Christianity. Of the Book "What
CHAPTER I. THE DOCTRINE OF NON-RESISTANCE TO EVIL BY FORCE HAS BEEN PROFESSED BY A MINORITY OF MEN FROM THE VERY FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY. Of the Book "What I Believe"--The Correspondence Evoked by it-- Letters from Quakers--Garrison's Declaration--Adin Ballou, his Works, his Catechism--Helchitsky's "Net of Faith"--The Attitude of the World to Works Elucidating Christ's Teaching--Dymond's Book "On War"--Musser's "Non-resistance Asserted"--Attitude of the Government in 1818 to Men who Refused to …
Leo Tolstoy—The Kingdom of God is within you

Original Righteousness.
"For in Him we live and move, and have our being: as certain also of your own poets have said. For we are also His offspring." --Acts xvii. 28. It is the peculiar characteristic of the Reformed Confession that more than any other it humbles the sinner and exalts the sinless man. To disparage man is unscriptural. Being a sinner, fallen and no longer a real man, he must be humbled, rebuked, and inwardly broken. But the divinely created man, realizing the divine purpose or restored by omnipotent grace …
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit

The Sixth Commandment
Thou shalt not kill.' Exod 20: 13. In this commandment is a sin forbidden, which is murder, Thou shalt not kill,' and a duty implied, which is, to preserve our own life, and the life of others. The sin forbidden is murder: Thou shalt not kill.' Here two things are to be understood, the not injuring another, nor ourselves. I. The not injuring another. [1] We must not injure another in his name. A good name is a precious balsam.' It is a great cruelty to murder a man in his name. We injure others in …
Thomas Watson—The Ten Commandments

Being Made Archbishop of Armagh, He Suffers Many Troubles. Peace Being Made, from Being Archbishop of Armagh He Becomes Bishop of Down.
[Sidenote: 1129] 19. (12). Meanwhile[365] it happened that Archbishop Cellach[366] fell sick: he it was who ordained Malachy deacon, presbyter and bishop: and knowing that he was dying he made a sort of testament[367] to the effect that Malachy ought to succeed him,[368] because none seemed worthier to be bishop of the first see. This he gave in charge to those who were present, this he commanded to the absent, this to the two kings of Munster[369] and to the magnates of the land he specially enjoined …
H. J. Lawlor—St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh

Mosaic Cosmogony.
ON the revival of science in the 16th century, some of the earliest conclusions at which philosophers arrived were found to be at variance with popular and long-established belief. The Ptolemaic system of astronomy, which had then full possession of the minds of men, contemplated the whole visible universe from the earth as the immovable centre of things. Copernicus changed the point of view, and placing the beholder in the sun, at once reduced the earth to an inconspicuous globule, a merely subordinate …
Frederick Temple—Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World

Mount Zion.
"For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them: for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: but ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto …
Thomas Charles Edwards—The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews

Covenanting According to the Purposes of God.
Since every revealed purpose of God, implying that obedience to his law will be given, is a demand of that obedience, the announcement of his Covenant, as in his sovereignty decreed, claims, not less effectively than an explicit law, the fulfilment of its duties. A representation of a system of things pre-determined in order that the obligations of the Covenant might be discharged; various exhibitions of the Covenant as ordained; and a description of the children of the Covenant as predestinated …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

Covenanting Predicted in Prophecy.
The fact of Covenanting, under the Old Testament dispensations, being approved of God, gives a proof that it was proper then, which is accompanied by the voice of prophecy, affording evidence that even in periods then future it should no less be proper. The argument for the service that is afforded by prophecy is peculiar, and, though corresponding with evidence from other sources, is independent. Because that God willed to make known truth through his servants the prophets, we should receive it …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

The Promise to the Patriarchs.
A great epoch is, in Genesis, ushered in with the history of the time of the Patriarchs. Luther says: "This is the third period in which Holy Scripture begins the history of the Church with a new family." In a befitting manner, the representation is opened in Gen. xii. 1-3 by an account of the first revelation of God, given to Abraham at Haran, in which the way is opened up for all that follows, and in which the dispensations of God are brought before us in a rapid survey. Abraham is to forsake …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

Discourse on Spiritual Food and True Discipleship. Peter's Confession.
(at the Synagogue in Capernaum.) ^D John VI. 22-71. ^d 22 On the morrow [the morrow after Jesus fed the five thousand] the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea [on the east side, opposite Capernaum] saw that there was no other boat there, save one, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples went away alone 23 (howbeit there came boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they ate the bread after that the Lord had given thanks): 24 when the multitude …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Genesis
The Old Testament opens very impressively. In measured and dignified language it introduces the story of Israel's origin and settlement upon the land of Canaan (Gen.--Josh.) by the story of creation, i.-ii. 4a, and thus suggests, at the very beginning, the far-reaching purpose and the world-wide significance of the people and religion of Israel. The narrative has not travelled far till it becomes apparent that its dominant interests are to be religious and moral; for, after a pictorial sketch of …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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