Keil & Delitzsch Bible Commentary Online

Two German scholars, one monumental Old Testament commentary. Hebrew grammar taken extremely seriously. Still on every seminarian's shelf. ๐Ÿ“ Leipzig

Lutheran ยท 1861-1875 ยท 8,799 comments ยท Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

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  • Genesis 1:1: The Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament contain the divine revelations which prepared the way for the redemption of fallen man by Christ. The revelation of God commenced with the creation of the heaven and the earth, when the triune God called into existence a world teeming with organized and living creatures, whose life and movements proclaimed the glory of their Creator; whilst, in the...
  • Genesis 1:2-5: Gen 1:2-5 The First Day. - Though treating of the creation of the heaven and the earth, the writer, both here and in what follows, describes with minuteness the original condition and progressive formation of the earth alone, and says nothing more respecting the heaven than is actually requisite in order to show its connection with the earth.
  • Genesis 1:6-8: Gen 1:6-8 The Second Day. - When the light had been separated from the darkness, and day and night had been created, there followed upon a second fiat of the Creator, the division of the chaotic mass of waters through the formation of the firmament, which was placed as a wall of separation (ืžื‘ื“ึผื™ืœ) in the midst of the waters, and divided them into upper and lower waters.
  • Genesis 1:9-13: Gen 1:9-13 The Third Day. - The work of this day was twofold, yet closely connected. At first the waters beneath the heavens, i.e., those upon the surface of the earth, were gathered together, so that the dry (ื”ื™ึผื‘ึผืฉืื”, the solid ground) appeared.
  • Genesis 1:14-19: Gen 1:14-19 The Fourth Day. - After the earth had been clothed with vegetation, and fitted to be the abode of living beings, there were created on the fourth day the sun, moon, and stars, heavenly bodies in which the elementary light was concentrated, in order that its influence upon the earthly globe might be sufficiently modified and regulated for living beings to exist and...
  • Genesis 1:20-23: Gen 1:20-23 The Fifth Day. - โ€œGod said: Let the waters swarm with swarms, with living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the face (the front, i.e., the side turned towards the earth) of the firmament.โ€ ื™ืฉืืจืฆื•ึผ and ื™ืขื•ืคืฃ are imperative.
  • Genesis 1:24-31: Gen 1:24-31 The Sixth Day. - Sea and air are filled with living creatures; and the word of God now goes forth to the earth, to produce living beings after their kind. These are divided into three classes. ื‘ึผื”ืžื”, cattle, from ื‘ื”ื, mutum, brutum esse, generally denotes the larger domesticated quadrupeds (e.g., Gen 47:18; Exo 13:12, etc.), but occasionally the larger land animals as a whole.
  • Genesis 2:1-3: Gen 2:1-3 The Sabbath of Creation. - โ€œThus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.โ€ ืฆื‘ื here denotes the totality of the beings that fill the heaven and the earth: in other places (see especially Neh 9:6) it is applied to the host of heaven, i.e., the stars (Deu 4:19; Deu 17:3), and according to a still later representation...