Genesis 2:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Exodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
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.
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and 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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

We have here, I. The settlement of the kingdom of nature, in God’s resting from the work of creation, Gen. 2:1, 2. Here observe, 1. The creatures made both in heaven and earth are the hosts or armies of them, which denotes them to be numerous, but marshalled, disciplined, and under command. How great is the sum of them! And yet every one knows and keeps his place. God uses them as his hosts for th…

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

(vv. 1)

Ge 2:1. The Narrative of the Six Days’ Creation Continued. The course of the narrative is improperly broken by the division of the chapter. 1. the heavens--the firmament or atmosphere. host--a multitude, a numerous array, usually connected in Scripture with heaven only, but here with the earth also, meaning all that they contain. were finished--brought to completion. No permanent change has ever s…