Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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In Context
1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
3God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Cross References
Job 26:14Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways.How small a whisper do we hear of him!But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
Psalms 33:6By the Lord's word, the heavens were made;all their army by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 104:30You send forth your Spirit: they are created.You renew the face of the ground.
Isaiah 45:18For thus says the Lord who created the heavens,the God who formed the earth and made it,who established it and did not create it a waste,who formed it to be inhabited:"I am the Lord;and there is no other.
Nahum 2:10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown 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 →