Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Parallel translations
- WEB The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.
- KJV Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- BSB Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
- NKJV Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.
- NASB And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their heavenly lights.
- NLT So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed.
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Quick answer
The heavens, earth, and all they contain are completed. God's creative work reaches its full and finished form.
Overview
This verse marks the completion of the entire creation, with its 'vast array' summing up everything God made over the six days. The finished work testifies to God's faithfulness in fully accomplishing what he set out to do. The completeness of creation prepares for God's rest, and points forward to the fuller completion God promises in the new heavens and new earth.
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- Exod 31:17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’”
- Exod 20:11for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
- Ps 33:6By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
- Gen 1:1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Isa 45:18For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.
- Isa 42:5Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
- 2 Kgs 19:15Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
- Ps 146:6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;
- Isa 45:12I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and I have commanded all their army.
- Zech 12:1A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
- Neh 9:6You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
- Ps 89:11–13The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
- Ps 33:9For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
- 2 Chr 2:12Huram continued, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.
- Ps 136:5–8To him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever:
- Isa 40:26–28Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.
- Gen 2:4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
- Heb 4:3For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- Acts 4:24When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
- Isa 65:17“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.
- Gen 1:10God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
- Jer 10:12He has made the earth by his power. he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.
- Deut 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
- Isa 48:13Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.
- Jer 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
- Deut 17:3and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded;
- 2 Kgs 21:3–5For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
- Job 12:9Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
- Isa 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
- Jer 8:2and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
- Luke 2:13Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,
- Acts 7:42But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Ps 104:2He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
- Isa 34:4All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
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