I Kings Chapter 15
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darby (darby) - eBible.org Darby 1890 plaintext
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And in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
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He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, a daughter of Abishalom.
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And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah hisGod, as the heart of David his father.
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But for David's sake Jehovah hisGod gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem;
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because David did that which was right in the sight of Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Urijah the Hittite.
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And there had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
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And the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
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And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his stead.
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And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah;
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and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, daughter of Abishalom.
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And Asa did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, as David his father.
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And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.
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And also Maachah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol for the Asherah; and Asa cut down her idol, and burned it in the valley of Kidron.
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But the high places were not removed; only, Asa's heart was perfect with Jehovah all his days.
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And he brought into the house of Jehovah the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which he himself had dedicated, silver and gold and vessels.
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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And Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, in order to let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
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And Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and gave them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,
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There is a league between me and thee, [as] between my father and thy father; behold, I send thee a present of silver and gold: go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
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And Ben-Hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his forces against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and all Kinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
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And it came to pass when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
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And king Asa called together all Judah: none was exempted; and they carried away the stones and the timber from Ramah, with which Baasha had been building; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
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And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Only, in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
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And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father. And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
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And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.
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And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel sin.
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And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines, when Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.
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And Baasha slew him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
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And it came to pass when he was king, he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left to Jeroboam none that breathed; until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Jehovah which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
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because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin; by his provocation with which he provoked Jehovah theGod of Israel to anger.
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And the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, for twenty-four years.
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And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin where with he made Israel to sin.
vul1914 (vul1914) - Vulgate 1914 UTF-8 (sacredbible.org)
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Igitur in octavo decimo anno regni Ieroboam filii Nabat, regnavit Abiam super Iudam.
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Tribus annis regnavit in Ierusalem: nomen matris eius Maacha filia Abessalom.
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Ambulavitque in omnibus peccatis patris sui, quæ fecerat ante eum: nec erat cor eius perfectum cum Domino Deo suo, sicut cor David patris eius.
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Sed propter David dedit ei Dominus Deus suus lucernam in Ierusalem, ut suscitaret filium eius post eum, et statueret Ierusalem:
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eo quod fecisset David rectum in oculis Domini, et non declinasset ab omnibus, quæ præceperat ei cunctis diebus vitæ suæ, excepto sermone Uriæ Hethæi.
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Attamen bellum fuit inter Roboam, et Ieroboam omni tempore vitæ eius.
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Reliqua autem sermonum Abiam, et omnia quæ fecit, nonne hæc scripta sunt in Libro verborum dierum regum Iuda? Fuitque prælium inter Abiam et inter Ieroboam.
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Et dormivit Abiam cum patribus suis, et sepelierunt eum in civitate David: regnavitque Asa filius eius pro eo.
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In anno ergo vigesimo Ieroboam regis Israel regnavit Asa rex Iuda,
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et quadraginta et uno anno regnavit in Ierusalem. Nomen matris eius Maacha, filia Abessalom.
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Et fecit Asa rectum ante conspectum Domini, sicut David pater eius:
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et abstulit effeminatos de terra, purgavitque universas sordes idolorum, quæ fecerant patres eius.
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Insuper et Maacham matrem suam amovit, ne esset princeps in sacris Priapi, et in luco eius, quem consecraverat: subvertitque specum eius, et confregit simulacrum turpissimum, et combussit in Torrente Cedron:
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excelsa autem non abstulit. Verumtamen cor Asa perfectum erat cum Domino cunctis diebus suis:
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et intulit ea, quæ sanctificaverat pater suus, et voverat, in domum Domini, argentum et aurum, et vasa.
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Bellum autem erat inter Asa, et Baasa regem Israel cunctis diebus eorum.
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Ascendit quoque Baasa rex Israel in Iudam, et ædificavit Rama, ut non posset quispiam egredi vel ingredi de parte Asa regis Iuda.
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Tollens itaque Asa omne argentum, et aurum, quod remanserat in thesauris domus Domini, et in thesauris domus regiæ, et dedit illud in manus servorum suorum: et misit ad Benadad filium Tabremon filii Hezion, regem Syriæ, qui habitabat in Damasco, dicens:
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Fœdus est inter me et te, et inter patrem meum et patrem tuum: ideo misit tibi munera, argentum et aurum: et peto ut venias, et irritum facias fœdus, quod habes cum Baasa rege Israel, et recedat a me.
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Acquiescens Benadad regi Asa, misit principes exercitus sui in civitates Israel, et percusserunt Ahion, et Dan, et Abeldomum Maacha, et universam Cenneroth, omnes scilicet Terram Nephthali.
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Quod cum audisset Baasa, intermisit ædificare Rama, et reversus est in Thersa.
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Rex autem Asa nuncium misit in omnem Iudam dicens: Nemo sit excusatus. et tulerunt lapides de Rama, et ligna eius, quibus ædificaverat Baasa, et extruxit de eis rex Asa Gabaa Beniamin, et Maspha.
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Reliqua autem omnium sermonum Asa, et universæ fortitudines eius, et cuncta quæ fecit, et civitates, quas extruxit, nonne hæc scripta sunt in Libro verborum dierum regum Iuda? Verumtamen in tempore senectutis suæ doluit pedes.
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Et dormivit cum patribus suis, et sepultus est cum eis in Civitate David patris sui. Regnavitque Iosaphat filius eius pro eo.
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Nadab vero filius Ieroboam regnavit super Israel anno secundo Asa regis Iuda: regnavitque super Israel duobus annis.
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Et fecit quod malum est in conspectu Domini, et ambulavit in viis patris sui, et in peccatis eius, quibus peccare fecit Israel.
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Insidiatus est autem ei Baasa filius Ahiæ de domo Issachar, et percussit eum in Gebbethon, quæ est urbs Philisthinorum: siquidem Nadab et omnis Israel obsidebant Gebbethon.
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Interfecit ergo illum Baasa in anno tertio Asa regis Iuda, et regnavit pro eo.
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Cumque regnasset, percussit omnem domum Ieroboam: non dimisit ne unam quidem animam de semine eius, donec deleret eum iuxta verbum Domini, quod locutus fuerat in manu servi sui Ahiæ Silonitis,
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propter peccata Ieroboam, quæ peccaverat, et quibus peccare fecerat Israel: et propter delictum, quo irritaverat Dominum Deum Israel.
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Reliqua autem sermonum Nadab, et omnia quæ operatus est, nonne hæc scripta sunt in Libro verborum dierum regum Israel?
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Fuitque bellum inter Asa, et Baasa regem Israel cunctis diebus eorum.
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Anno tertio Asa regis Iuda regnavit Baasa filius Ahiæ, super omnem Israel in Thersa vigintiquattuor annis.
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Et fecit malum coram Domino, ambulavitque in via Ieroboam, et in peccatis eius, quibus peccare fecit Israel.
ylt (ylt) - Bible.com YLT98 plain UTF-8
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And in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam son of Nebat, reigned hath Abijam over Judah;
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three years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Maachah daughter of Abishalom;
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and he walketh in all the sins of his father, that he did before him, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father;
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but for David's sake hath Jehovah his God given to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,
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in that David did that which <FI>is<Fi> right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from all that He commanded him all days of his life--only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite;
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and war hath been between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
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And the rest of the matters of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? And war hath been between Abijam and Jeroboam;
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and Abijam lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David, and reign doth Asa his son in his stead.
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And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned hath Asa over Judah,
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and forty and one years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Maachah daughter of Abishalom.
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And Asa doth that which <FI>is<Fi> right in the eyes of Jehovah, like David his father,
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and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;
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and also Maachah his mother--he turneth her aside from being mistress, in that she made a horrible thing for a shrine, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and burneth <FI>it<Fi> by the brook Kidron;
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and the high places have not turned aside; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect with Jehovah all his days,
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and he bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of Jehovah, silver, and gold, and vessels.
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And war hath been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days,
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and Baasha king of Israel goeth up against Judah, and buildeth Ramah, not to permit any one going out and coming in to Asa king of Judah.
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And Asa taketh all the silver and the gold that are left in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, and giveth them into the hand of his servants, and king Asa sendeth them unto Ben-Hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion king of Aram, who is dwelling in Damascus, saying,
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`A covenant <FI>is<Fi> between me and thee, between my father and thy father; lo, I have sent to thee a reward of silver and gold; go, break thy covenant with Baasha king of Israel, and he goeth up from off me.'
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And Ben-Hadad hearkeneth unto king Asa, and sendeth the heads of the forces that he hath against cities of Israel, and smiteth Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali;
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and it cometh to pass at Baasha's hearing, that he ceaseth from building Ramah, and dwelleth in Tirzah.
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And king Asa hath summoned all Judah--there is none exempt--and they lift up the stones of Ramah, and its wood, that Baasha hath built, and king Asa buildeth with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
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And the rest of all the matters of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? Only, at the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet;
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and Asa lieth with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigneth in his stead.
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And Nadab son of Jeroboam hath reigned over Israel, in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigneth over Israel two years,
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and doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and goeth in the way of his father, and in his sin that he made Israel to sin.
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And conspire against him doth Baasha son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, and Baasha smiteth him in Gibbethon, which <FI>is<Fi> to the Philistines--and Nadab and all Israel are laying siege against Gibbethon--
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yea, Baasha putteth him to death in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigneth in his stead.
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And it cometh to pass, at his reigning, he hath smitten the whole house of Jeroboam, he hath not left any breathing to Jeroboam till his destroying him, according to the word of Jehovah, that He spake by the hand of His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
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because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin, by his provocation with which he provoked to anger Jehovah, God of Israel.
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And the rest of the matters of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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And war hath been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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In the third year of Asa king of Judah reigned hath Baasha son of Ahijah over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years,
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and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and walketh in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin that he caused Israel to sin.
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Explain Like I'm 5
A long, long time ago, there was nothing at all - no earth, no sky, no animals, no people. It was all dark and empty. But God was there! God is so powerful that He can make anything just by speaking. So God said "Let there be light!" and BOOM! There was light everywhere! God saw that the light was beautiful and good. He called the light "day" and the darkness "night." This was the very first day when God started making our wonderful world!
Explain Like I'm 10
Before anything existed - no planets, stars, or life - God decided to create the universe. The earth started out as a dark, empty place covered with water. But God's Spirit was there, ready to bring order and beauty to everything. When God spoke and said "Let there be light," light immediately appeared because God's words have incredible power. God looked at the light and was pleased with what He had made. He organized time by separating light (day) from darkness (night), creating the first 24-hour period. This shows us that God is organized and purposeful in everything He does.
Explain Like I'm 15
Genesis 1:1-5 establishes fundamental theological truths about God and creation. The Hebrew word "bara" (created) indicates creation from nothing (ex nihilo), demonstrating God's absolute sovereignty and power. The phrase "without form and void" (tohu wa-bohu) describes a state of chaos that God transforms into order. The Spirit of God "hovering" or "brooding" over the waters suggests active, caring involvement in creation. The creation of light before the sun (created on day 4) indicates that God Himself is the ultimate source of light and energy. The establishment of day and night creates the framework of time, showing that God operates within orderly patterns while transcending them. This passage refutes both atheistic materialism and pantheism, establishing that God is both transcendent (separate from creation) and immanent (actively involved in it).