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 refer to the arrangements which have just been described as made on the six days. It is merely a recapitulation of the opening statement, that God was the Creator of all things in the universe, in connection with the fact, which was about to be put on record, that He established the present system of things on earth in that specified time. [All ambiguity in the import of clause would been avoided had our translators, instead of "thus" taken the [wª-] in its usual sense, 'and,' as simply connecting this sentence with the preceding context.]
The host of them. х Tsªbaa'aam (H6635) signifies a multitude, a numerous array-usually applied to heavenly bodies; but in this passage-the only one in Scripture-it is connected with earthly objects also. It is rendered by the Septuagint, kosmos (G2889), and denotes both the vast amount and the orderly collocation of all things which the heavens and the earth contain.]