Teks -- Genesis 9:9 (NET)

9:9 “Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Gen 9:9

We have here the general establishment of God's covenant with this new world, and the extent of that covenant.

Defender: Gen 9:9 - my covenant

The Noahic covenant (Hebrew berith) is the first covenant mentioned in Scripture and is everlasting (Gen 9:16). It applied not only to Noah and his seed (Gen 9:9), but also to the animal kingdom (Gen 9:10) and even to the earth itself (Gen 9:13). It was unconditional, promising the age-long endurance of the post-Flood cosmos, and also reconfirming and amplifying God's primeval commission to mankind, involving human stewardship over the earth and its inhabitants."

TSK: Gen 9:9

Gen 9:11, Gen 9:17, Gen 6:18, Gen 17:7, Gen 17:8, Gen 22:17; Isa 54:9, Isa 54:10; Jer 31:35, Jer 31:36, Jer 33:20; Rom 1:3

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Gen 9:9 - covenant // With your seed

i.e. My promise, for the beasts included in this covenant, Gen 9:10 , are not capable of a covenant properly so called. And the word

covenant is oft used for a simple promise, as we shall see hereafter.

With your seed i.e. your posterity, as that word is frequently taken, as Gen 12:7 Exo 28:43 , &c.

Gill: Gen 9:9 - And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you // and with your seed after you

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you,.... Not the covenant of grace in Christ, but of the preservation of the creatures in common, a promise that they should not be destroyed any more by a flood; to which promise it seems an oath was annexed, as appears from Isa 54:9 which passage refers to this covenant, as Aben Ezra on the place observes; and both to raise attention to what is here affirmed, and to show the certainty of it, the word "behold" is prefixed to it; nor is it amiss what Jarchi observes, that this follows upon the direction and exhortation to procreation of children, and is an encouragement to it; since it is assured that posterity should be no more cut off in the manner it had been; for this covenant was made and established not only with Noah, and his sons, but with all their succeeding offspring, as follows:

and with your seed after you; with all their posterity to the end of the world; so that this covenant was made with all the world, and all the individuals in it, from Noah's time to the end of it; for from him and his sons sprung the whole race of men that peopled the world, and still continue to inhabit it; hence here is nothing in it peculiar to the seed of believers.