And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.
Death never triumphed so utterly as in the flood, heaps upon heaps of the dead. God, sovereign Lord of all life, had every right to unmake what He made; His holiness blazed forth in that judgment, and the creatures' destruction with sinful man made His wrath unmistakably terrible.
AI summary
Commenting on Genesis 7:21-24
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground,.... Not everything, particularly trees; for after the flood was abated there was an olive tree, a leaf of which was brought to Noah by the dove, Gen 8:11 but all animals: both men and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven, and they were destroyed from the...
all flesh died . . . fowl . . . cattle, and . . . creeping thing--It has been a uniform principle in the divine procedure, when judgments were abroad on the earth, to include every thing connected with the sinful objects of His wrath (Gen 19:25; Exo 9:6).