Genesis 1:1-11:32 NIV

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 1:1-31

EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM.Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3) the Deity is simply called Elohim. This word is strictly a plural of Eloah, which is used as the name of God only in poetry, or in late books like those of Nehemiah and Daniel. It is there an Aramaism, God in Syriac being Aloho, in Ohaldee Ellah, and in Arabic Allahu—all of which are merely dialectic varieties of the Hebrew Eloah, and are used constantly in the singular... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 1:1-31

The Creation Genesis 1:2 Every writing must be judged by the object the writer has in view. If the object of the writer of these chapters was to convey physical information, then certainly it is imperfectly fulfilled. But if his object was to give an intelligible account of God's relation to the world and to man, then it must be owned that he has been successful in the highest degree. Intimate communion with God, a spirit trained to discern spiritual things, a perfect understanding and zeal... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:1-31

THE CREATIONGenesis 1:1-31; Genesis 2:1-25 IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding the order in which plants and animals have appeared upon it, he is referred to recent textbooks in astronomy, geology, and palaeontology. No one for a moment dreams of referring a serious student of these subjects to the Bible as a source of information. It is not the object of the writers of Scripture to impart... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Genesis 1:1-31

Analysis and Annotations I. THE CREATION ACCOUNT The manner in which the book of Genesis begins leaves no doubt that it is the revelation of God. The creation account is historical truth. The question is how was it given? An answer to this question claims that the Jews obtained the account from the records of other nations concerning the origin of the universe and that they altered it according to their own religious ideas. This is an impossibility. The ancient heathen nations considered God... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Genesis 1:1

1:1 In the {a} beginning God created the heaven and the earth.(a) First of all, and before any creature was, God made heaven and earth out of nothing. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:1-31

In our human nature is a thirst to know about origins. God has given us this nature and God supplies the answer to our desire simply and decisively in the first statement of His own revelation to mankind. He goes no further back than to the beginning of the history of the created heavens and earth. Anyone who has faith understands this, "that the worlds were formed by the word of God" (Hebrews 11:3). some may question and reason as to how God could create so tremendous a universe, but faith... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:1-31

CREATION OF THE WORLD CREATION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH (Genesis 1:1 ) Here are three facts. What was done? Who did it? When did it occur? Two words require explanation: “created” and “beginning.” Does the former mean that heaven and earth were created out of nothing? The word (bara, in Hebrew) does not necessarily mean that, but its peculiar use in this chapter suggests that it means that here. It occurs three times, here in (Genesis 1:1 , at the introduction of life on the fifth day, and at... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Genesis 1:1-25

The Unbeginning Beginning Gen 1:1-25 Was ever the mind so staggered and so humiliated as by this first chapter of Genesis! The mind is plunged into infinite depths, and driven up into infinite heights, and forced with irresistible violence across infinite breadths, and then is asked by mechanical critics what it thinks of it all! Why, of course, it cannot think. It is in the whirl of an infinite amazement; it is humbled, abashed, and stupefied utterly. The action never pauses for a moment;... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. In the beginning; - that is the beginning of time; for from eternity, Jehovah himself subsisted in his threefold character of Persons, revealed in Scripture, under the sacred names of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In proof of this his eternal power and Godhead, see Genesis 21:33 ; Psalms 90:2 ; Deuteronomy 33:27 ; Isaiah 44:6 ; Revelation 1:17; Revelation 1:17 , etc. God created, - that is, the three Divine Persons in one God, here spoken of... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:1

Beginning. As St. Matthew begins his Gospel with the same title as this work, the Book of the Generation, or Genesis, so St. John adopts the first words of Moses, in the beginning; but he considers a much higher order of things, even the consubstantial Son of God, the same with God from all eternity, forming the universe, in the beginning of time, in conjunction with the other two Divine Persons, by the word of his power; for all things were made by Him, the Undivided Deity. (Haydock) --- ... read more