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Bible Commentaries
Genesis

The Church Pulpit CommentaryChurch Pulpit Commentary

Chapter 1
Creation of the World in Six Days.
Chapter 2
Creation of Adam, Eve, and Eden.
Chapter 3
The Fall: Adam and Eve's Sin.
Chapter 4
Cain Kills Abel; Cain's Descendants Multiply.
Chapter 5
Genealogy from Adam to Noah.
Chapter 6
Wickedness Prompts God to Flood Earth.
Chapter 7
Noah's Ark Survives the Great Flood.
Chapter 8
Waters Recede; Noah Exits the Ark.
Chapter 9
God's Covenant with Noah; Rainbow Sign.
Chapter 11
Tower of Babel; Languages Confused.
Chapter 12
God's Call to Abram; Covenant Begins.
Chapter 13
Abram and Lot Separate; God Promises Land.
Chapter 14
Abram Rescues Lot; Melchizedek Blesses Abram.
Chapter 15
God's Covenant with Abram Affirmed.
Chapter 16
Hagar Bears Ishmael, Abram's First Son.
Chapter 17
Circumcision Covenant; Abram Renamed Abraham.
Chapter 18
Angelic Visitors Announce Isaac's Birth.
Chapter 19
Destruction of Sodom; Lot's Escape.
Chapter 20
Abraham's Encounter with Abimelech in Gerar.
Chapter 21
Birth of Isaac; Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away.
Chapter 22
Abraham's Near-Sacrifice of Isaac.
Chapter 23
Sarah Dies; Abraham Purchases Burial Site.
Chapter 24
Isaac Marries Rebekah, Abraham's Choice.
Chapter 25
Abraham's Death; Jacob and Esau's Births.
Chapter 26
Isaac Prospers in Gerar, Repeats Abraham's Mistakes.
Chapter 27
Jacob Deceives Isaac; Esau's Blessing Stolen.
Chapter 28
Jacob's Ladder Dream; Covenant Reaffirmed.
Chapter 29
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel.
Chapter 31
Jacob Flees Laban; Covenant of Peace.
Chapter 32
Jacob Wrestles with God; Becomes Israel.
Chapter 33
Jacob Reconciles with Esau Peacefully.
Chapter 35
Jacob's Name Change Reaffirmed; Rachel Dies.
Chapter 37
Joseph's Dreams; Sold into Slavery by Brothers.
Chapter 39
Joseph Prospers in Egypt Despite Imprisonment.
Chapter 40
Joseph Interprets Dreams for Pharaoh's Servants.
Chapter 41
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams; Rises to Power.
Chapter 42
Joseph's Brothers Visit Egypt for Grain.
Chapter 43
Brothers Return to Egypt with Benjamin.
Chapter 44
Joseph Tests His Brothers' Loyalty.
Chapter 45
Joseph Reveals His Identity to Brothers.
Chapter 46
Jacob's Family Moves to Egypt.
Chapter 47
Joseph Manages Egypt During Famine; Jacob Blesses Pharaoh.
Chapter 48
Jacob Blesses Joseph's Sons, Ephraim, and Manasseh.
Chapter 49
Jacob's Prophetic Blessings on His Sons.
Chapter 50
Jacob's Burial; Joseph Reassures His Brothers.

- Genesis

by Editor - James Nisbet

Genesis 1:1 The Sublime Introduction

Genesis 1:1 The Beginning

Genesis 1:3‘All the Blessings of the Light’

Genesis 1:5‘Day and Night’

Genesis 1:14 Sun and Moon

Genesis 1:26 The Divine Image in Man

Genesis 1:31 The Divine Verdict

Genesis 2:1 The Completed Work

Genesis 2:3 The Sacred Day

Genesis 2:7-8 The Garden of Eden

Genesis 2:9 The Tree of Destiny

Genesis 2:17 The One Forbidden Thing

Genesis 3:1 The Temptation of Man

Genesis 3:8 Concealment from God impossible

Genesis 3:10 Cowardice and Cant

Genesis 3:13 The Excuse of the Tempted

Genesis 3:15 The Earliest Gospel

Genesis 3:16-18 Sinners must Suffer

Genesis 3:19‘He remembereth that we are dust’

Genesis 3:24 Driven into Exile

Genesis 4:4-5 The ‘Disregarded and the Accepted Offering’

Genesis 4:9 The Unbrotherly Brother

Genesis 4:19-24 An Early Chauvinist

Genesis 4:26 The First True Worshippers

Genesis 5:24 The Witness of Enoch

Genesis 5:29 The First True Comforter

Genesis 6:5-7 An Awful Sight

Genesis 6:6 Human Sin and Divine Judgment

Genesis 6:8 A Lonely Man of Grace

Genesis 6:17 Doom and Deliverance

Genesis 7:5 Obedience to God

Genesis 8:4 The Ark of Safety

Genesis 8:20-22 The First Altar in the New World

Genesis 9:8-9 The Noahic Covenant

Genesis 9:12-15‘The Bow in the Cloud’

Genesis 9:14 The Bow of Hope

Genesis 11:1‘Of One Language’

Genesis 11:9‘What will these Babblers say?’

Genesis 12:1 The Pilgrim Father

Genesis 12:3 Blessing received and imparted

Genesis 12:4 The First Columbus

Genesis 12:4-5‘I do not ask to see the distant scene’

Genesis 12:10 A Fateful Journey

Genesis 13:10-11 The Worldly Choice

Genesis 13:18 Tent and Altar

Genesis 14:23 Some Elements of a Godly Life

Genesis 15:1 Abram’s Vision

Genesis 15:5-6 Righteousness by Faith

Genesis 16:13‘Thou God seest Me’

Genesis 17:2 The Promise Renewed

Genesis 18:2 The Divine Guest

Genesis 18:22 A Persevering Intercessor

Genesis 18:25 The Righteous Judge

Genesis 19:26 An Old-World Beacon

Genesis 20:11 A Godly Man’s Lapse

Genesis 21:17 The Listening God

Genesis 21:19 God’s Well and Man’s Bottle

Genesis 22:1-8 The Great Test

Genesis 22:1 (r.v.) The Trial of Faith

Genesis 23:19‘Till Death do them part’

Genesis 24:10 Fidelity

Genesis 24:58‘Forget thine own People!’

Genesis 25:8‘A Good Old Age’

Genesis 25:34 The Despised Birthright

Genesis 26:3; Genesis 26:5 Hereditary Blessing

Genesis 26:22 Isaac the Peaceable

Genesis 26:31 The Man of Peace

Genesis 27:5-6 A Game of Cross-purposes

Genesis 27:34 A Penitent’s Prayer

Genesis 28:16 The Pilgrim’s Vision

Genesis 28:17‘Hallowed Ground’

Genesis 28:19 Life’s Bethels

Genesis 29:20; Genesis 31:38 The Mid-passage of Life

Genesis 31:6-7 Lights and Shadows

Genesis 31:48 The Heap of Witness

Genesis 32:1 Angels on Life’s Pathway

Genesis 32:1 The Angels of God

Genesis 32:24 The Divine Antagonist

Genesis 32:26‘When I am weak, then am I strong’

Genesis 32:28 A New Name

Genesis 32:31 Life’s Sunrise

Genesis 33:3 A Happy Reunion

Genesis 35:3 Back to Bethel

Genesis 37:3 The Favourite Son

Genesis 37:18 Unbrotherly Brothers

Genesis 39:9‘Yield not to Temptation, for yielding is Sin’

Genesis 40:3 A Noble Prisoner

Genesis 41:14 Potentate and Prisoner

Genesis 41:41 Prison to Palace

Genesis 42:21-22 Conscience Awakened

Genesis 42:30 Rough Tongue and Tender Heart

Genesis 43:9 Surety for a Brother

Genesis 43:30-31 Tenderness and Self-control

Genesis 44:12 The Cup Discovered

Genesis 44:32 A Brother’s Heart

Genesis 45:5‘God is His own Interpreter, and He will make it plain’

Genesis 45:28 Alive from the Dead!

Genesis 46:4 Father and Son

Genesis 47:9 A Tired Pilgrim

Genesis 47:23‘Ye are bought with a price’

Genesis 48:15-16 An Old Man’s Blessing

Genesis 49:18 Waiting for God’s Salvation

Genesis 50:26 Joseph’s Death

 
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