Genesis 1:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 4:23
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Psalms 104:30
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

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Commentary

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. the earth was without form and void--or in “confusion and emptiness,” as the words are rendered in Is 34:11. This globe, at some undescribed period, having been convulsed and broken up, was a dark and watery waste for ages perhaps, till out of this chaotic state, the present fabric of the world was made to arise. the Spirit of God moved--literally, continued brooding over it, as a fowl does, wh…