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Genesis 1:9-13
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:9-13
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Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:6-13Genesis 1:6-13 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryThe earth was emptiness, but by a word spoken, it became full of God's riches, and his they are still. Though the use of them is allowed to man, they are from God, and to his service and honour they must be used. The ea…The Creation. (b. c. 4004.)Genesis 1:9-13 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleTHE CREATION. (B. C. 4004.) The third day's work is related in these verses—the forming of the sea and the dry land, and the making of the earth fruitful. Hitherto the power of the Creator had been exerted and employed…The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:9Genesis 1:9 · The Pulpit CommentaryDay three. The distribution of land and water and the production of vegetation on this day engaged the formative energy of the word of Elohim. And God said, Let the waters under heaven be gathered together into one plac…The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:9-12Genesis 1:9-12 · The Pulpit CommentarySea, land, and vegetation, contrasted and compared. I. CONTRASTED, in respect of?? 1. Their constitutions;?봲ea being matter liquid and mobile, land matter solid and dry, vegetation matter organized and living. All God's…
commentaryMatthew Henry on Genesis 1:6-13The earth was emptiness, but by a word spoken, it became full of God's riches, and his they are still. Though the use of them is allowed to man, they are from God, and to his service and honour they must be used. The ea…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Creation. (b. c. 4004.)THE CREATION. (B. C. 4004.) The third day's work is related in these verses—the forming of the sea and the dry land, and the making of the earth fruitful. Hitherto the power of the Creator had been exerted and employed…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:9Day three. The distribution of land and water and the production of vegetation on this day engaged the formative energy of the word of Elohim. And God said, Let the waters under heaven be gathered together into one plac…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:9-12Sea, land, and vegetation, contrasted and compared. I. CONTRASTED, in respect of?? 1. Their constitutions;?봲ea being matter liquid and mobile, land matter solid and dry, vegetation matter organized and living. All God's…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:10And God called the dry land Earth. In opposition to the firmament, which was named" the heights" (shamayim), the dry land was styled "the fiats," "Aretz" (cf. Sansc; dhara; Pehlev; arta; Latin, terra; Gothic, airtha; Sc…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. Three terms are employed to describe the v…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind. It is noticeable that the vegetation of the third day sprang from the soil…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:13And the evening and the morning were the third day. For exposition vid. Genesis 1:5. Has modern geological research any trace of this third day's vegetation? The late Hugh Miller identified the long-continued epoch of p…Joseph S. Exell and contributors