Matthew Henry

G E N E S I S CHAP. I. The foundation of all religion being laid in our relation to God as our Creator, it was fit that the book of divine revelations which was intended to be the guide, support, and rule, of religion in the world, should begin, as i…

G E N E S I S CHAP. II. This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, more particularly explaining and enlarging upon that part of the history which relates immediately to man, the favourite of this lower world. We have in it, I. The in…

G E N E S I S CHAP. III. The story of this chapter is perhaps as sad a story (all things considered) as any we have in all the Bible. In the foregoing chapters we have had the pleasant view of the holiness and happiness of our first parents, the grac…

G E N E S I S CHAP. IV. In this chapter we have both the world and the church in a family, in a little family, in Adam's family, and a specimen given of the character and state of both in after-ages, nay, in all ages, to the end of time. As all manki…

G E N E S I S CHAP. V. This chapter is the only authentic history extant of the first age of the world from the creation to the flood, containing (according to the verity of the Hebrew text) 1656 years, as may easily be computed by the ages of the pa…

G E N E S I S CHAP. VI. The most remarkable thing we have upon record concerning the old world is the destruction of it by the universal deluge, the account of which commences in this chapter, wherein we have, I. The abounding iniquity of that wicked…

G E N E S I S CHAP. VII. In this chapter we have the performance of what was foretold in the foregoing chapter, both concerning the destruction of the old world and the salvation of Noah; for we may be sure that no word of God shall fall to the groun…

G E N E S I S CHAP. VIII. In the close of the foregoing chapter we left the world in ruins and the church in straits; but in this chapter we have the repair of the one and the enlargement of the other. Now the scene alters, and another face of things…

G E N E S I S CHAP. IX. Both the world and the church were now again reduced to a family, the family of Noah, of the affairs of which this chapter gives us an account, of which we are the more concerned to take cognizance because from this family we …

G E N E S I S CHAP. X. This chapter shows more particularly what was said in general ( ch. ix. 19 ), concerning the three sons of Noah, that "of them was the whole earth overspread;" and the fruit of that blessing ( ch. ix. 1, 7 ), "replenish the ear…