Genesis 1:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- VI. The Fourth Day 14. מאור mā'ôr , “a light, a luminary, a center of radiant light.” מועה mô‛ēd , “set time, season.” Words beg...

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The second set of four works on the last three days corresponds to the set of four on the first three. Thus we have the creation of light and of the...

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, an...

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

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

Sky, Earth, Seasons Genesis 1:6-19 There were successive stages in creation. The days probably represent long periods. It is so with the new cr...

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The opening sentence of the Book of Genesis is an interpretation of the fact "that what is seen hath not been made out of things which do appear" He...

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, an...

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven ,.... He not only ordered that there they should be, and made them that there they might be, but he...

John Trapp Complete Commentary

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. Gen 1:17 And...

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

In our human nature is a thirst to know about origins. God has given us this nature and God supplies the answer to our desire simply and decisively i...

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Creation. B. C. 4004.       14 And God...

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. And God set the...

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:14 . Lights] “Luminaries:” Heb. me’ôrôth , sing, mâʼôr , not ’ôr as in Genesis 1:3 : Sept. phôstêr here, phôs...

Scofield Reference Notes

heaven That is, the "heaven" of the stars; for example ( Genesis 15:5 ); ( Luke 23:43 ).

Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 1 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...

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 1:1 . In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. When that «beginning» was, we cannot tell. It may have been long ages before...

The Biblical Illustrator

Let there be lights in the firmament The heavenly luminaries I. THESE LIGHTS ARE ALL GOD’S SERVANTS. II. THE MISTAKES MAN’S EYE MAKES IN JUD...

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 1:14 , Genesis 1:15 Day four . With this day begins the second half of the creative week, whose works have a str...

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Creation of Sun, Moon, and Stars

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 9:13 Job 38:12 Psalms 8:1 Psalms 8:3 Acts 13:47

Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament Genesis 1:1-18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have a very interesting study to set before you today. Most of us re...

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...