Genesis 1:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- VII. The Fifth Day 20. שׁרץ shārats , “crawl, teem, swarm, abound.” An intransitive verb, admitting, however, an objective noun of its own...

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

On the fifth day were created the denizens of the water and the atmosphere; the creatures that move in swarms in the water, all winged creatures, inc...

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

evening... morning. See on Genesis 1:5 fifth. The No. of grace (App-10). No blessing till the 5th day, when there was living soul to bless. fi...

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. No JFB commenta...

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...

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The fifth day. — Upon the work of the first four days geology is virtually silent, and the theories respecting the physical formation of the world...

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 Creation's Crown Genesis 1:20-31 Creation reveals God's nature, as the picture the artist. His eternal Power and Godhead are visible in His...

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 the evening and the morning were the fifth day. The sun now in the firmament, where it was fixed the day before, having gone round the earth, o...

John Trapp Complete Commentary

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it...

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.       20 And God...

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And God said, “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and let birds fly above the earth on the face of the expanse...

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:20 . Creature] Here, and in Genesis 1:21 ; Genesis 1:24 , “creature” stands for Heb. nephesh (Sept. psychê ), and...

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:26 . Man] Heb. ’âdhâm (Adam). The reader of the Heb. can scarcely resist the impression that a close connection was...

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 the waters bring forth abundantly Fish and fowl I. THAT LIFE IS THE IMMEDIATE CREATION OF GOD. 1. Life was not an education. 2. It wa...

The Biblical Illustrator

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply God’s blessing abundant At the close of this day the Lord does what He has not done on a...

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 1:20 Day five. The waters and the air, separated on the second day, are on this filled with their respective inhabita...

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Creation of Marine Animals and Birds

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 1:23

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...