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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...
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- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 _...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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The Sabbath of Creation...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Genesis 2:2 seventh H7637 day H3117 God H430 ended H3615 (H8762) work
H4399 done H6213 (H8804) rested...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And on. Genesis 1:31 Exodus 20:11 Exodus 23:12 Exodus 31:17 Deuteronom
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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
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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...