Genesis 1:9
And God said—Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry—ground appear. And it was so.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
8And God called the expanse, heavens. So it was evening—and it was morning, a, second day.
Cross References
Job 26:7Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;
Job 38:8Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
Psalms 24:2For, he, upon the seas, hath founded it, and upon the currents, doth make it firm.
Psalms 95:5Whose, is the sea, for, he, made it, And, the dry land, his hands, did form.
Psalms 104:5He hath fixed the earth on its foundations, It is not to be shaken, to times age-abiding and beyond.
Proverbs 8:28When he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the resounding deep, waxed strong;
Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:7-9
The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. We have here an account of the second day's work, the creation of the firmament, in which observe, 1. The command of God concerning it:… Read the whole commentary →