Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God was waving over the face of the waters.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
3And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
Cross References
Job 26:14Lo, these are ends of his ways; for how slight a whisper is heard [by us] of him! but the thunder of his mighty deeds who can understand?
Psalms 33:6By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
Psalms 104:30Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Isaiah 45:18For thus hath said the Lord the creator of the heavens; he, the God that formed the earth and made it; he that hath established it,—not for naught did he create it, to be inhabited did he form it: I am the Lord; and there is no one else.
Nahum 2:10(2:11) She is void, and emptied out, and wasted; and the heart melteth, and the knees totter, and trembling is in all loins, and the faces of them all are covered with blackness.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:2-3
Genesis to Deuteronomy PREFACE Genesis to Deuteronomy Though it is most my concern, that I be able to give a good account to God and my own conscience, yet, perhaps, it will be expected that I give the world also some account of this bold undertaking; which I shall endeavour to do with all plainness, and as one who believes, that if men must be reckoned with in the great day, for every vain and idle word they speak, much more for every vain and idle line they write. And it may be of use, in the first place, to lay… Read the whole commentary →