Genesis 2:1

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- 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 progressiv...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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....
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

J's Story of Creation and Paradise Lost. This story does not belong to P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and point o...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 c...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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, compose...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Host of them— All the creatures in the heavens and the earth are called their hosts , for their multitude, variety, order, power, and subjection t...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

All the host of them ] i.e. 'all the contents of heaven and earth.'
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Creation 'The foundation of foundations and pillar of all wisdom is to know that the First Being is, and that He giveth existence to everythin...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

II. THE SABBATH. (1) Were finished. — The first three verses of this chapter form part of the previous narrative, and contain its Divine purpose...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM. Throughout the first account of creation ( Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3 ) the Deity is simply...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 t...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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-...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account. First, "Jehovah God f...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 i...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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 fini...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished ,.... Perfected and completed in the space of six days, gradually, successively, in the manner before r...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 a...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The host of them That is, the creatures contained therein. The host of heaven , in Scripture language, sometimes signifies the stars, and sometime...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Creation. B. C. 4004. 1 Thus the h...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 . Th...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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 c...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 2:2 . Rested] “Kept sabbath,” i.e. “observed a sacred, festive quiet.” A good worker does his work well, and leaves of...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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 H...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 G...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 reason...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished. Literally, and finished were the heavens and the earth, the emphatic...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sabbath of Creation
Wells of Living Water Commentary

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 t...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Beginning and the Beginning Again Genesis 1:26-31 ; Genesis 2:1-10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the f...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 2:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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