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Genesis 2:2
When God had created everything, he rested. That means that he did not create anything else. It does not mean that he did no more work. Genesis tells us that God did many more things.
When God had created everything, he rested. That means that he did not create anything else. It does not mean that he did no more work. Genesis tells us that God did many more things.
Verse Genesis 2:2. _ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED, C._] It is the general voice of Scripture that God finished the whole of the creation in six days, and rested the _seventh_! giving us an example tha...
- 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 progressive discharge of their functions. Hence, it is applied to th...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CREATION ACCOUNT The manner in which the book of Genesis begins leaves no doubt that it is the revelation of God. The creation account is historical truth. The questio...
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 good and not merely good) that He had uttered on th...
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 of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK. The six days, or periods, were fully occupied with the work of creation. During them the creative activity did not cease, but on the seventh day God ended hi...
SEVENTH. Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint read "sixth", which is evidently correct. DAY. See on ch. Genesis 1:5. GOD ENDED. See on Genesis 1:1 and App-5. MADE. See note on Genesis 1:7. RESTED.
_on the seventh day_ Some misunderstanding arose in very early times in consequence of these words. Jealous for the sanctity of the Sabbath, men said, "No, not on the seventh day, but on the sixth day...
NOTE ON THE SABBATH In connexion with the Institution of the Sabbath recorded in Genesis 2:1-3 the following points deserve to be noticed. 1. The writer gives the reason for the sanctity among the H...
DISCOURSE: 2 APPOINTMENT OF THE SABBATH Genesis 2:2. _On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed t...
RESTED— This word (ישׁבת _ishboth_) is not opposed to _weariness,_ but to _work,_ or _action._ And therefore all the idle sarcasms which have been cast upon Moses and his God, are built upon ignorance...
Day Seven: Rest Genesis 2:1-3 _And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day...
_AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE; AND HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL_ _ HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE._ And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made. So...
GOD] Heb. _EloMm_. The word probably signifies 'strength,' but the etymology is obscure; cp. Arabic _Allah._ The Heb. word is plural in form, but as a rule it is significantly followed by verbs in the...
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 everything that exists! 'Thus wrote Moses Maimonides, a Jewish...
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 called _Elohim._ This word is strictly a plural of _Eloah,...
GOD ENDED HIS WORK. — Not all work (see John 5:17, and Note _in loc._)_,_ but the special work of creation. The laws given in these six days still continue their activity; they are still maintained, a...
וַ יְכַ֤ל אֱלֹהִים֙ בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ...
THE CREATION Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1 IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding the order in which plan...
MAN IN EDEN, INNOCENCE Genesis 2:1 The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from the use of the same term for God- _Elohim._ God's Rest was not from weariness, or exhaustion,...
This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account. First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed" su...
A DAY OF REST A Bible school teacher once told the story of creation. One of her four year old students then said, "On the seventh day God went to jail." When asked to explain, he said, "You said that...
MAN IS DIFFERENT Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he (b) rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. (b) For he had now finished his creation, but his providence sti...
He rested, &c. That is, he ceased to make any new kinds of things. Though, as our Lord tells us, John v. 17. He still worketh, viz. by conserving and governing all things, and creating souls. (Challon...
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Deuteronomy 5:14. How beautiful is it to behold the first institution...
2._And he rested on the seventh day _The question may not improperly be put, what kind of rest this was. For it is certain that inasmuch as God sustains the world by his power, governs it by his provi...
In chapter 2 we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion as such. Hence the LORD [1] God is introduced: not merely God as a creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. Hen...
AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK, WHICH HE HAD MADE,.... Not that God wrought anything on the seventh day, or finished any part of his work on that day, because he could not then be said to r...
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Ver. 2. _He rested,_] that is, he ceased to create; which work he ha...
Gen. 2:2. "And on the seventh day God ended all his works." The [Hebrew] word translated _work_, which comes from [the Hebrew word for] _angel _ or _messenger_, and therefore most properly signifies _...
_God rested on the seventh day_ Not as if he were weary, or needed rest, as we do after labour, which to suppose would be inconsistent with his infinite perfection, Isaiah 40:28: but for an example to...
1 The first Sabbath. 4 The maner of the creation. 8 The planting of the garden of Eden, 10 and the riuer thereof. 17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19-20 The naming of the creatures. 21 T...
The Sabbath of Creation...
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all His work which he had made. The work of creation did not extend into the seventh day, but was fin...
See Genesis 1:1 ff for the passage quote with footnotes for Genesis 2:1-3 12.Genesis 2:1. _The Divine Sabbath_. Genesis 2:1. Thus the heavens and the ear
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 finished." The work of the first creation occupied s...
1-3 After six days, God ceased from all works of creation. In miracles, he has overruled nature, but never changed its settled course, or added to it. God did not rest as one weary, but as one well p...
GOD ENDED HIS WORK, or rather _had ended_ or _finished, _ for so the Hebrew word may be rendered, as all the learned know, and so it must be rendered, else it doth not agree with the former chapter, w...
The chapter introduces to our notice two prominent subjects, namely, "the seventh day" and "the river." The first of these demands special attention. There are few subjects on which so much misunderst...
Genesis 2:2 seventh H7637 day H3117 God H430 ended H3615 (H8762) work H4399 done H6213 (H8804) rested...
‘And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and he rested (ceased work) on the seventh day from all the work which he had made. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, bec...
Genesis 2:1. 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; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work whi...
CONTENTS: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Genesis 1:27 explained. The Edenic covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Adam, Eve. CONCLUSION: Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. The real man i...
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 God ended his work._ The Samaritan Pentateuch reads, the si...
_He rested on the seventh day_ THE DIVINE SABBATH: I. THE DIVINE COMPLETION OF HIS CREATIVE WORK. No further creations. II. THE DIVINE CONTEMPLATION OF HIS CREATIVE WORK. Everything complete. Everyt...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:1 God has now completed the process of putting his creation in order (see note on 1:1–2:3). That God RESTED does not imply he was weary from labor. Rather, God’s resting hint...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 2:2. Rested] “Kept sabbath,” _i.e._ “observed a sacred, festive quiet.” A good worker does his work well, and leaves off when he has done. The very crown of his work is the p...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 2:1 THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE FINISHED. Literally, and finished were the heavens and the earth, the emphatic position being occupied by the verb. With the creation of man...
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; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had mad...
And on. Genesis 1:31 Exodus 20:11 Exodus 23:12 Exodus 31:17 Deuteronom
THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING AGAIN Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the Bible, and in its opening Chapter s we have the...
CREATION SCENES Genesis 1:11; Genesis 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 1:12, we find the story of God's command to t