2 Peter 3:5
For this is hidden from them (but they want it that way): that the Shomayim existed from long ago and ha'Aretz out of mayim and through mayim BIDVAR Hashem NA'ASU + 3:5 Ps 33:6 (By the word of the L-rd were made).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6Through this very mayim, the tevel (world) of that time perished in the mabbul (flood).
Cross References
Genesis 1:6And Elohim said, Let there be a raki'a (expanse, dome, firmament) in the midst of the mayim (waters), and let it divide the mayim from the mayim.
Psalms 24:2For He hath founded it upon the yamim (seas), 1 and established it upon the waters. 1
Psalms 136:6To Him that stretched out ha'aretz above the mayim; 1 ki l'olam chasdo. 1
John 3:19And this is the psak din, that the Ohr has come into the Olam Hazeh, and Bnei Adam had ahavah for the choshech rather than for the Ohr, for their ma'asim were ra'im (evil). + 3:19 Ps 52:3
Colossians 1:17And Moshiach is before all things, and all things in Moshiach have been held together; + 1:17 Prov 8:23-27; 30:4
Hebrews 11:3By Emunah we have binah Shomayim v'ha'Aretz found their “barah” from the Dvar Hashem, so that not from anything visible has what we see come into being. + 11:3 Ps 33:6
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:4-8
The Cavils of Infidels; Destruction of the World. ( a. d. 67.) 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being… Read the whole commentary →