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Gen 7:19 — And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered.

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and all the high hills		At the present day every mountain where search has been made, conspire in one uniform, universal proof that they all had the sea spread over their highest summits; shells, skeletons of fish, etc., having been found there. Job 12:15; Psa 46:2,3; Psa 104:6-9; Jer 3:23; 2Pe 3:6

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and all the high hills

	Job 12:15	Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
	Psa 46:2	Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
	Psa 46:3	[Though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled, [though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
	Psa 104:6	Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
	Psa 104:7	At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
	Psa 104:8	They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
	Psa 104:9	Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
	Jer 3:23	Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel.
	2Pe 3:6	Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

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Scott, Thomas. "Genesis 7:19," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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