Genesis 2:1 BSB

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:1

Genesis 2:1 The heavens and the earth were finished when God created man in His own image. Then the universe was what He designed it to be; then He could look, not upon a portion of it, but upon the whole of it, and say, "It is very good." I. We are told: (1) "God made man in His own image; male and female created He them;" and (2) "He made man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life," The two accounts are distinct. If we had the first only, we should... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:1-25

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made (Gen 2:1-3).So we find the creation of the earth in chapter one; the placing of man upon the earth, and then the declaration that on the seventh day God rested. Not... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:1-25

Genesis 2:1. By host is meant, not the angels, as some have thought, but the starry heavens. Psalms 33:6. Genesis 2:2. On the seventh day God ended his work. The Samaritan Pentateuch reads, the sixth day. The variation is accounted for by the variation in reckoning the hours at which the sabbath began. On the sabbath, see Ezekiel 20:12; Ezekiel 20:20. Genesis 2:6. A mist watered the whole face of the ground, the rainy season of the climate not being then come. Deuteronomy 11:14.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 2:1

Genesis 2:1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of themThe completed creationI.THE CREATION WAS A GRADUAL PROCESS. The reasons might be--(1) To show that God’s works were not the offspring of hasty impulse, but planned from everlasting, and executed with minute and lingering care; (2) To discover the variety of methods which a God infinitely rich in resources can employ in effecting His great purposes. II. THE CREATIVE PROCESS AT LAST CAME TO A POINT IN MAN. (G.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 2:1

Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Ver. 1. All the host of them. ] His upper and nether forces, his horse and foot, as it were, all creatures in heaven, earth, or under earth; called God’s host, for their (1) number, (2) order, (3) obedience. These the Rabbins a call magnleh cheloth, and matteh cheloth, the upper and lower troops ready pressed. a Kimchi read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 2:1

Thus: Genesis 2:4, Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:10, Exodus 20:11, Exodus 31:17, 2 Kings 19:15, 2 Chronicles 2:12, Nehemiah 9:6, Job 12:9, Psalms 89:11-1 Chronicles :, Psalms 104:2, Psalms 136:5-Ruth :, Psalms 146:6, Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 45:18, Isaiah 48:13, Isaiah 55:9, Isaiah 65:17, Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 10:16, Zechariah 12:1, Acts 4:24, Hebrews 4:3 host: Deuteronomy 4:19, Deuteronomy 17:3, 2 Kings 21:3-Deuteronomy :, Psalms 33:6, Psalms 33:9, Isaiah 34:4, Isaiah 40:26-Hosea :, Isaiah 45:12,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 2:1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.We have here, (1.) The settlement of the kingdom of nature, in God's resting from the work of creation, Genesis 2:1,2. Where observe, 1. That the creatures made both... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:1

SEVENTH DAY SABBATH, Genesis 2:1-3. 1. All the host of them That is, all the things, animate and inanimate, which made up the several works of creation . read more