Genesis 2:2-3 WEB

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:3

The two sabbaths: the Divine and the human. I. THE SABBATH OF GOD . A period of— 1. Cessation from toil , or discontinuance of those world-making operations which had occupied the six preceding days ( Hebrews 4:4 ). Never since the close of the creative week has God interfered to fundamentally rearrange the material structure of the globe. The Deluge produced no alteration on the constitution of nature. Nor is there evidence that any new species have been added to its... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:1-3

- The Seventh Day1. צבא tsābā' “a host in marching order,” a company of persons or things in the order of their nature and the progressive discharge of their functions. Hence, it is applied to the starry host Deuteronomy 4:19, to the angelic host 1 Kings 22:19, to the host of Israel Exodus 12:41, and to the ministering Levites Numbers 4:23. κόσμος kosmos.2. חשׁביעי chashebı̂y‛ı̂y. Here השׁשׁי hashshı̂y is read by the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint, the Syriac, and Josephus. The... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:2

Genesis 2:2. God rested on the seventh day Not as if he were weary, or needed rest, as we do after labour, which to suppose would be inconsistent with his infinite perfection, Isaiah 40:28: but for an example to us. Accordingly, in the fourth commandment, God’s resting on the seventh day is assigned as a reason why we should rest on that day. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:3

Genesis 2:3. God blessed the seventh day He conferred on it peculiar honour, and annexed to it special privileges above those granted to any other day; and sanctified it That is, separated it from common use, and dedicated it to his own sacred service, that it should be accounted holy, and spent in his worship, and in other religious and holy duties. It appears evidently by this, that the observation of the sabbath was not first enjoined when the law was given, but that it was an... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:1-3

THE STORY OF CREATIONThe Bible and scienceModern science has revealed so much about the wonders and the size of the physical universe that human beings may seem almost to be nothing. The Bible takes a different view. Human beings are its main concern, for they alone are made in God’s image. The story of creation is but an introduction to the story of God’s dealings with the human race. The Bible demonstrates this order of importance from the outset by fitting the story of creation into a mere... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 2:2

seventh. Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint read "sixth", which is evidently correct. day. See on ch. Genesis 1:5 . God ended. See on Genesis 1:1 and App-5 . made. See note on Genesis 1:7 . rested. From achievement; man rests from fatigue. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 2:3

created. See note on Genesis 1:1 . The Introduction (Genesis 1:1 - Genesis 2:3 ) is the summary: Genesis 2:4-25 gives the details of Genesis 1:0 : Genesis 2:9-14 coming historically between verses: Genesis 1:12 and Genesis 1:13 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 2:2

"And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."It is not stated here that God rested from all activity, but that He rested from creation, "the work which he had made," an expression twice repeated. This has no reference whatever to the Jewish sabbath. This does not refer to the days of the week, but to the days of the creation. This day of God's rest is still going on (Hebrews 4:4-6,11), and will obviously... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 2:3

"And God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it; because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made."Note that here also, the specific thing from which it is stated that God rested is the work of creation, a fact which is manifest enough in the fact that the creation is not still going on. There is also no mention here of "evening and morning," as indicating the close of the seventh day, for it is still in progress.All efforts to associate the creation sabbath with the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 2:2

Genesis 2:2. Rested— This word (ישׁבת ishboth) is not opposed to weariness, but to work, or action. And therefore all the idle sarcasms which have been cast upon Moses and his God, are built upon ignorance and misunderstanding of the fact. God, an Almighty and Omnipotent Spirit, can neither faint nor be weary: but he may cease from exerting certain operations of his power; as here he ceased to exert his divine energy in the formation of new productions. This is all that is intended: He ceased... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:1-3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:3

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:1-3

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 2:2

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 2:3

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 2:2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 2:3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 2:2

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