God created, i.e. produced out of most unfit matter, as if a man should out of a stone make bread, which requires as great a power as that which is properly called creation. Great whales; those vast sea monsters known by that name, though elsewhere this word be applied to great dragons of the earth. After his kind; in such manner as is declared in the first note upon Genesis 1:20. See Poole on "Genesis 1:20".
Related Commentaries of Genesis 1:21
Genesis 1:21
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.