Genesis 1:2
When he began to create the earth, it was shapeless and completely desolate/chaotic. Darkness covered the deep water that surrounded the earth. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the water.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
1Long, long ago God created the heavens and the earth.
3God said, “I want light to shine!” And light shone.
Cross References
Job 26:14But those events show only a small amount of his power; it is as though we are hearing only whispers of his powerful voice. When we hear thunder, we say, ‘◄Who can really understand how great his power is/No one can really understand how great his power is!► [RHQ]’”
Psalms 33:6Yahweh created everything in the sky by commanding it. By what he said [MTY] he created all the stars.
Psalms 104:30When you cause newborn creatures to begin to breathe, they start to live; you give new life to all the living creatures on the earth.
Isaiah 45:18Yahweh is God; he is the one who created the sky and created and formed the earth. He did not want it to remain with nothing living on it; he wanted people to live on it. He says, “I am Yahweh; there is no other God.
Nahum 2:10Soon everything valuable in the city will be seized or ruined. People will be trembling, with the result that they will not be able to fight. Their faces will all become pale.
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 →