Genesis 1:6-7

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 1:6-8

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 1:6. Firmament] Or: “expanse;” prop. “something beaten out.” “expanded.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 1:6-8THE ATMOSPHEREThe word here translated “firmament” more properly means expanse; it comes from a Hebrew verb meaning “to spread out.” It is literally “Let there be something spread out between the waters” Let us review the uses of the atmosphere. I. It is necessary to the possibility of human life. Had not the waters been divided by the atmosphere, human... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:1-31

Genesis 1:0 It is possible that God made at first only one kind of matter, the germ of all the universe. Indeed, Scripture seems to hint this in the sublime record of the origin of light: "And God said, Let there be light, and there was light." Here light is evidently regarded as the first of all sublunary things. The principal agent in this work was the Son of God. He had made the third heaven. He had created angels. The strong Satan himself was originally the workmanship of Christ. It is no... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Genesis 1:6

firmament Lit. expanse (i.e. of waters beneath, of vapour above). read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:1-8

Chapter 1:1-8Shall we now turn in our Bibles to Genesis chapter one, verse one?The word Genesis in Hebrew means "beginning." And so, it is "the book of the beginnings", and in Genesis we find the beginning of the universe, first of all, and then the beginning of the life forms within the universe, the beginning of man, the beginning of sin and death. Then we find the beginning of God's redemptive program by the beginning of a nation.The majority of the book of Genesis has to do with God's... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 1:1-31

Genesis 1:1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth; all the orbs which revolve and shine in the expanse of heaven, measuring time by days, and years, and periods. By consequence, the sublime system of nature is not eternal. If matter were eternal, then the אלהים Elohim, Ο Θεοτης , the Godhead or Divinity who acts here, is also material, dependent on matter, and a necessary agent. The perfections of wisdom, goodness and love, can no longer be attributed to him. These... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 1:6-8

Genesis 1:6-8Let there be a firmamentThe atmosphereI.THE ATMOSPHERE IS NECESSARY TO THE POSSIBILITY OF HUMAN LIFE. 1. Gathers up the vapours. 2. Throws them down again in rain, snow, or dew, when needed. 3. Modifies and renders more beautiful the light of the sun. 4. Sustains life. II. IT IS NECESSARY FOR THE PRACTICAL PURPOSES OF LIFE. 1. The atmosphere is necessary for the transmission of sound. If there were no atmosphere, the bell might be tolled, the cannon might be fired, a thousand... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 1:6

Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Ver. 6. Let there be a firmament. ] Yet not so firm, but it shall be dissolved. 2Pe 3:11 That it is not presently so; that those windows of heaven are not opened, as once in the deluge, having no better a bar than the liquid air, and we suddenly buried in one universal grave of waters; see a miracle of God’s mercy, and thank him for this powerful word of his, "Let there be a... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 1:7

Gen 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so. Ver. 7. Waters which were above the firmament. ] That is the clouds, and watery meteors above the lower region of the air, where God’s "pavilion round about him is dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies". Psa 18:11 Jer 10:13 These he "weighs by measure"; Job 28:25 not a drop falls in vain, or in a wrong place. And this is the first... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 1:6

Let there: Genesis 1:14, Genesis 1:20, Genesis 7:11, Genesis 7:12, Job 26:7, Job 26:8, Job 26:13, Job 37:11, Job 37:18, Job 38:22-Ezekiel :, Psalms 19:1, Psalms 33:6, Psalms 33:9, Psalms 104:2, Psalms 136:5, Psalms 136:6, Psalms 148:4, Psalms 150:1, Ecclesiastes 11:3, Jeremiah 10:10, Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 10:13, Jeremiah 51:15, Zechariah 12:1 firmament: Heb. expansion Reciprocal: Job 9:8 - Which Psalms 148:5 - for he 2 Peter 3:5 - by the word Revelation 14:6 - in read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 1:7

divided: Proverbs 8:28, Proverbs 8:29 above: Job 26:8, Psalms 104:10, Psalms 148:4, Ecclesiastes 11:3 and it: Genesis 1:9, Genesis 1:11, Genesis 1:15, Genesis 1:24, Matthew 8:27 Reciprocal: Genesis 1:20 - open firmament Genesis 7:11 - all Exodus 3:16 - elders Job 9:8 - Which Jonah 2:10 - General read more

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