Genesis 1:2 - Scofield Reference Notes

Bible Comments

without form and void;

(Jeremiah 4:23-27); (Isaiah 24:1); (Isaiah 45:18) clearly indicate that the earth had undergone a cataclysmic change as the result of divine judgment. The face of the earth bears everywhere the marks of such a catastrophe. There are not wanting imitations which connect it with a previous testing and fall of angels.

See (Ezekiel 28:12-15); (Isaiah 14:9-14) which certainly go beyond the kings of Tyre and Babylon.

Genesis 1:2

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.