Genesis 1:2
and the earth was formless and void, and darkness [was] on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God [was] fluttering on the face of the waters,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth,
3and God says, “Let light be”; and light is.
Cross References
Job 26:14Behold, these [are] the borders of His way, and how little a matter is heard of Him, and who understands the thunder of His might?”
Psalms 33:6By the word of YHWH || The heavens have been made, || And all their host by the breath of His mouth.
Psalms 104:30You send out Your Spirit, they are created, || And You renew the face of the ground.
Isaiah 45:18For thus said YHWH, Creator of the heavens, || He is God, || Former of earth, and its Maker, || He established it—He did not create it empty, || For He formed it to be inhabited: “I [am] YHWH, and there is none else.
Nahum 2:10She is empty, indeed, emptiness and waste, || And the heart has melted, || And the knees have struck together, || And great pain [is] in all loins, || And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness.
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 →