Genesis 2:1
What meaning of the genesis 2:1 in the Bible?
What does Genesis 2:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."
What does Genesis 2:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."
CHAPTER II _The seventh day is consecrated for a sabbath,_ _and the reasons assigned_, 1-3. _A recapitulation of the six days' work of creation_, 4-7. _the garden of Eden planted_, 8. _Its trees_...
- 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 t...
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 questi...
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...
III. THE SABBATH. NSTITUTED. 2:1. THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE FINISHED. As described in the preceding chapter. The first three verses of chapter. really belong to chapter 1, as the change of...
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 and Deuteronomy 4:26....
Genesis 2:1-4 a. The Seventh Day: (_a_) The Cessation from Work; (_b_) The Hallowing of the Day 1. _were finished_ In these verses the repetition of the words "finish," "work," "seventh day," "made,...
HOST OF THEM— All the creatures in the heavens and the earth are called their _hosts_, for their multitude, variety, order, power, and subjection to the Lord of hosts. Nothing remained farther to be d...
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...
_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...
ALL THE HOST OF THEM] i.e. 'all the contents of heaven and earth.'...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 2 GOD RESTS V1 So the sky and the earth were complete. Everything that was in them was complete. V2 On the seventh day, God had finished his work...
II. THE SABBATH. (1) WERE FINISHED. — The first three verses of this chapter form part of the previous narrative, and contain its Divine purpose. For the great object of this hymn of creation is to gi...
וַ יְכֻלּ֛וּ הַ שָּׁמַ֥יִם וְ הָ אָ֖רֶץ וְ כָל ־צְבָאָֽם׃...
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 tha...
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....
_Furniture, ornaments or militia, whether we understand the Angels, or the stars, which observe a regular order and obey God. (Menochius)_...
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 immediately after creation-work was finished. In it...
_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 finished when God created man in His own image. Then the un...
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 completed. The general division of the world is made into the...
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...
THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE FINISHED,.... Perfected and completed in the space of six days, gradually, successively, in the manner before related; by the word and power of God they were on the...
_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 and foot, as it were, all creatures in heaven, earth,...
_The host of them_ That is, the creatures contained therein. _The host of heaven_, in Scripture language, sometimes signifies the stars, and sometimes the angels. But, as Moses gives us no intimation,...
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...
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 in heaven and earth, angels, birds, animals, and me...
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 EARTH WERE FINISHED. A solemn retrospect introduci...
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 pl...
GENESIS CHAPTER 2 The sabbath insituted and blessed, GENESIS 2:2. A rehearsal of the creation; and, (1.) Of vegetables, GENESIS 2:4. The earth watered, GENESIS 2:6. (2.) Of man, GENESIS 2:7. His habit...
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 2:1 heavens H8064 earth H776 them H6635 finished H3615 (H8792) Thus the - Genesis 2:4, Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:10; Exodus 20:11, Exodus 31:17; 2 Kings 19:15;...
‘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 creation, including sun, moon and stars, the differe...
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 He could look, not upon a portion of it, but upon the...
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 s...
_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 reasons might be-- (1) To show that God’s works were not t...
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...
Thus. Genesis 2:4 Genesis 1:1 Genesis 1:10 Exodus 20:11 Exodus 31:17 2 Kings 19:15 2 Chronicles 2:12 Nehemiah 9:6 Job 12:9 Psalms 89:11...
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 the earth to bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the...
We have here, (1.) The settlement of the kingdom of nature, in God's resting from the work of creation, Genesis 2:1. Where observe, 1. That the creatures made both in heaven and earth, are the hosts o...
How could the world be created in six days? PROBLEM: The Bible says that God created the world in six days (Exodus 20:11). But modern science declares that it took billions of years. Both cannot be t...