“ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. ”
- The Seventh Day 1. 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 appli...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the (a) host of them. (a) That is, the innumerable abundance of creatures in heaven and earth.
Thus in six days God completed His work of creation, and as He reviewed it He uttered the same verdict on the whole, only in a heightened form (very good and not merely good) that He had uttered on t...
the heavens and the earth . "which are now" ( 2 Peter 3:7 ), see Structure on p. 1. Hence without Hebrew Particle 'eth . See note on Genesis 1:1 and Deuteronomy 4:26 .
1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished (100) Moses summarily repeats that in six days the fabric of the heaven and the earth was completed. The general division of the world is mad...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And all the host of them - The word host signifies literally an army, composed of a number of companies of soldiers under their...
Host of them— All the creatures in the heavens and the earth are called their hosts , for their multitude, variety, order, power, and subjection to the Lord of hosts. Nothing remained farther to b...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished. This sentence does not refer to the arrangements which have just been des...
All the host of them ] i.e. 'all the contents of heaven and earth.'
II. THE SABBATH. (1) Were finished. — The first three verses of this chapter form part of the previous narrative, and contain its Divine purpose. For the great object of this hymn of creation is...
THE CREATION Genesis 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...
Man in Eden, Innocence Genesis 2:1-17 The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from the use of the same term for God- Elohim. God's Rest was not from weariness, or exh...
This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account. First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed" s...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. This Chapter is remarkable for the events recorded in it, which took place immediately after creation-work was finished. In it...
THE COMPLETED WORK ‘Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.’ Genesis 2:1 The heavens and the earth were finished when God created man in His own image. Then t...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished ,.... Perfected and completed in the space of six days, gradually, successively, in the manner before related; by the word and power of God they were on...
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, eart...
The host of them That is, the creatures contained therein. The host of heaven , in Scripture language, sometimes signifies the stars, and sometimes the angels. But, as Moses gives us no intimation...
THE SEVENTH DAY The first three verses here are directly connected with chapter 1. "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished." The work of the first creation occupie...
The Creation. B. C. 4004. 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the ho...
GENESIS CHAPTER 2 The sabbath insituted and blessed, Genesis 2:2-3 . A rehearsal of the creation; and, (1.) Of vegetables, Genesis 2:4-5 . The earth watered, Genesis 2:6 . (2.) Of man, G...
‘Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them.' This use of the word ‘host' is unusual. Here it signifies the totality of creation, including sun, moon and stars, the differ...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 2:2 . Rested] “Kept sabbath,” i.e. “observed a sacred, festive quiet.” A good worker does his work well, and leaves off when he has done. The very crown of his work is...
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 t...
Genesis 2:1-8 . 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 wo...
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...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them The completed creation I. THE CREATION WAS A GRADUAL PROCESS. The reasons might be-- (1) To show that God’s works were...
EXPOSITION Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished. Literally, and finished were the heavens and the earth, the emphatic position being occupied by the verb. With the cre...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them. The actual work of creation had been done in six days, all the created beings in heaven and earth, angels, birds, animals, and m...
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 89:11-13 Psalms 104:2 Psalms 136:5-8 Psalms...
Creation Scenes Genesis 1:11-31 ; Genesis 2:1-2 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 1:12 , we find the story of God's command to the earth to bring forth grass, the herb yieldin...
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 in heaven and earth, are the...