Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Verse Genesis 1:26. _AND GOD SAID, LET US MAKE MAN_] It is evidentthat God intends to impress the mind of man with a sense of somethingextraordinary in the formation of his body and soul, when hei...
Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
- VIII. The Sixth Day24. בהמה _b__e__hēmâh_, “cattle; dumb, tame beasts.”רמשׂ _remeś_, “creeping (small or low) animals.”חוּה _chayâh_, “living thing; animal.”חוּת־חארץ
Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONSI. THE CREATION ACCOUNTThe manner in which the book of Genesis begins leaves no doubt that itis the revelation of God. The creation account is historical truth.The questio...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible
The sixth day is occupied with the creation of the land animals and ofman. It is natural that a much fuller space than usual should beaccorded to the latter. And the solemnity of the act is marked b...
B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary
THE BEGINNING. -- Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 2:1-3.GOLDEN TEXT. --_ In the beginning God created the heavens and theearth._ -- Genesis 1:1. TIME. --Unknown. Placed by Usher B. C. 4004.PLACE. --Ede
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
LET US. The Divine _purpose_ is here stated. The Divine _act_ notdescribed till Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:21.MAN. Hebrew. _'adam_ (no Art.). mankind.IMAGE... LIKENESS. Figure of speech _Hendiadys._ A...
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
_Let us make_ LXX ποιήσωμεν, Lat. _faciamus_. The use of the1st pers. plur. is a well-known _crux_of interpretation. How are we toexplain its occurrence in the utterance of the Almighty? The onlyot...
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
_Let us make_, &c. The creation of man, although taking place on thesame day with that of the land animals, is a completely separatecreative act. It constitutes the climax and the crown of Creation....
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Sixth Day:(_a_) Creation of the Land Animals (Genesis 1:24);(_b_) Creation of Man (Genesis 1:26);(_c_) The End of the Creation (Genesis 1:31),...
co*ke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE— Behold the finishing stroke of theDivine Creator, Man, the last and greatest work of God. Animal lifewas produced: but now at last the crown of creation is brought fort...
College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
Day Six: Land Animals, Man, Naming of the Animal Tribes, Woman(Genesis 1:24-31)And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after theirkind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of t...
College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
PART SEVEN: THE LAST THREE DAYS OF THE COSMIC WEEK OF BEGINNINGSGenesis 1:20-31The heart of the Genesis Cosmogony is that all things have beenbrought into existence by the Supreme Creative Will, a...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
_AND GOD SAID, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS: ANDLET THEM HAVE DOMINION OVER THE FISH OF THE SEA, AND OVER THE FOWL OFTHE AIR, AND OVER THE CATTLE, AND OVER ALL THE EARTH, AND OVE...
Darby's translation notes (1890)
1:26 man (c-7) Or 'men,' 'mankind.' _ adam_ , earthy....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
LET US MAKE MAN] the crowning work of creation and its highestdevelopment. The plural form 'us,' which occurs again Genesis 3:22;Genesis 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8, has been interpreted of the Holy Trinity...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
THE CREATION'The foundation of foundations and pillar of all wisdom is to knowthat the First Being is, and that He giveth existence to everythingthat exists! 'Thus wrote Moses Maimonides, a Jewish...
EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLEGENESIS_ALUN OWEN_ABOUT GENESISMany people think that Moses wrote Genesis. If he did, other peopleprobably helped him. And if he did, he may have used some of the wordso...
EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
People are images of God. This does not mean that man’s body is likeGod. Man’s body is like an animal. But man’s spirit is like God.And so man can know God.God said, ‘Let us make people.’ He did n...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
LET US MAKE MAN. — Comp. Genesis 11:7. The making of man is soushered in as to show that at length the work of creation had reachedits perfection and ultimate goal. As regards the use of the plural...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM.Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3)the Deity is simply called _Elohim._ This word is strictly a plural of_Eloah,...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)
THE CREATIONGenesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age ofthis earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regardingthe order in which plan...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary
MAN CREATION'S CROWNGenesis 1:20Creation reveals God's nature, as the picture the artist. His eternalPower and Godhead are visible in His works. See Romans 1:20. And allthings and beings were mad...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible
The opening sentence of the Book of Genesis is an interpretation ofthe fact "that what is seen hath not been made out of things which doappear" Hebrews 11:3), and accounts for the things which are s...
Gary Hampton Commentaries
"GOD CREATED"It should be noted the writer of this account is not concerned withscience. However, no proven fact of science contradicts any scripture.The expression "and God" is used 28 times in Ge...
Gary Hampton Commentaries
MAN IS DIFFERENTUntil man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man wasdifferent (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of theearth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
Geneva Study Bible Commentary
And God said, (s) Let us make man in our (t) image, after ourlikeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, andover the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,...
George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
Let us make man to our image. This image of God in man, is not in thebody, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued withunderstanding and free-will. God speaketh here in the plural nu...
Hawker's Poor man's commentary
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: andlet them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl ofthe air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over...
Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attentionmay be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do withfacts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary
_THE DIVINE IMAGE IN MAN_‘And God said, Let us make man in our image.’Genesis 1:26It is not too much to say that redemption itself, with all its gracesand all its glories, finds its explanation...
John Calvin's Bible Commentary
26._Let us make man _(83) Although the tense here used is the future,all must acknowledge that this is the language of one apparentlydeliberating. Hitherto God has been introduced simply as _command...
John Darby's Synopsis
Let us examine then the contents of this book in order. First, we havethe creation creation in which man is found placed on earth as centreand head. We have first the WORK of God, and then the REST...
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
AND GOD SAID, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS,....These words are directed not to the earth, out of which man was made,as consulting with it, and to be assisting in the formation of...
John Trapp Complete Commentary
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: andlet them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl ofthe air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
_God said, Let us make man_ We have here another and still moreimportant part of the sixth day's work, the creation of man. Havingprepared a fit habitation for man, and furnished it with all things...
KJV Original Language Details
[THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.]1 The creation of Heauen and Earth,3 of the light,6 of the firmament,9 of the earth separated from the waters,11 and made fruitfull,14 of the Sunne, Moone, and...
Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible
The Creation and Blessing of Man...
Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible
And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness; andlet them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl ofthe air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over eve...
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures
THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD AND OF THE PRIMITIVE TIME OF THE HUMAN RACE,AS THE GENESIS OF THE PRIMITIVE RELIGION UNTIL THE DEVELOPMENT OFHEATHENDOM, AND OF ITS ANTITHESIS IN THE GERMINATING PATRIARCHAL...
Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible
In our human nature is a thirst to know about origins. God has givenus this nature and God supplies the answer to our desire simply anddecisively in the first statement of His own revelation to mank...
Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible
26-28 Man was made last of all the creatures: this was both an honourand a favour to him. Yet man was made the same day that the beastswere; his body was made of the same earth with theirs; and whi...
Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible
God had now prepared all things necessary for man's use and comfort.The plurals US and OUR afford an evident proof of a plurality ofpersons in the Godhead. It is plain from many other texts, as well...
Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh
There is something peculiarly striking in the manner in which the HolyGhost opens this sublime book. He introduces us, at once, to God, inthe essential fullness of His Being, and the solitariness of...
Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes
Genesis 1:26 God H430 said H559 (H8799) make H6213 (H8799) man H120image H6754 likeness H1823 dominion...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
‘Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over thebirds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and...
Scofield's Bible Commentary
MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGEMan. (Genesis 1:26); (Genesis 1:27); gives the general, (Genesis2:7); (Genesis 2:21) the particular account of th
Sermon Bible Commentary
Genesis 1It is possible that God made at first only one kind of matter, thegerm of all the universe. Indeed, Scripture seems to hint this in thesublime record of the origin of light: "And God said...
Sermon Bible Commentary
Genesis 1:26It is not too much to say that redemption, with all its graces and allits glories, finds its explanation and its reason in creation. He whothought it worth while to create, foreseeing c...
Spurgeon's Bible Commentary
Genesis 1:1. _In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth._When that «beginning» was, we cannot tell. It may have been longages before God fitted up this world for the abode of man, but i...
Summarized Bible Commentary
CONTENTS: Original creation and the renovating of earth forhabitation of man. Creation of animal and human life.CHARACTERS: God, Genesis 1:1. Spirit, Genesis 1:2. Christ, Genesis1:26 (See...
The Biblical Illustrator
_Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness_THE CREATION OF MANI. THAT THE CREATION OF MAN WAS PRECEDED BY A DIVINE CONSULTATION.1. This consultation was Divine. Held by the Three Persons...
The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:1 Primeval History. Genesis 1:1 surveysthe history of the world before Abraham, while chs....
The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:26 LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE. Some havesuggested that God may be addressing the members of his heavenlycourt, whom the OT elsewhere calls “sons of God” (e.g.,...
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 1:24_THE ANIMAL WORLDI. That the Animal World was created by God. All the creeping thingsof the earth are created by God. The cattle upon a thousand hil...
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary
CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 1:26. Man] Heb. _’âdhâm_ (Adam). The reader of the Heb.can scarcely resist the impression that a close connection was meantto be seen between _’âdhâm_ “man,” and, _adhâmâh_...
The Pulpit Commentaries
EXPOSITIONGENESIS 1:21_Day_ _six_._ _Like day three, this is distinguished by a doublecreative act, the production of the higher or land animals and thecreation of man, of the latter of which it...
Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith
Now on the third day,God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together intoone place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God calledthe dry land Earth; and the gathering to...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let us. Genesis 3:22 Genesis 11:7 Job 35:10 Psalms 100:3 Psalms 149:2...
Wells of Living Water Commentary
THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING AGAINGenesis 1:26; Genesis 2:1INTRODUCTORY WORDSThe word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of theBible, and in its opening Chapter s we have the...
Wells of Living Water Commentary
CREATION SCENESGenesis 1:11; Genesis 2:1INTRODUCTORY WORDSIn Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 1:12, we find the story of God's commandto t
Wesley's Explanatory Notes
We have here the second part of the sixth day's work, the creation ofman, which we are in a special manner concerned to take notice of.Observe, That man was made last of all the creatures, which was...
When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960
Why does the Bible use the plural “us” when God refers to Himself?PROBLEM: Orthodox Christian and Jewish scholars maintain that God isone. In fact, the historic confession of the faith of Israel is...
