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Bible Commentaries
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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
