Treasury of Scripture
Let the waters.
Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air...
Genesis 8:17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle...
Psalm 104:24,25 O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches...
Psalm 148:10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
moving. or, creeping.
1 Kings 4:33 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts...
life. Heb. a living soul.
Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creeps on the earth, wherein there is life...
Ecclesiastes 2:21 For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity...
fowl that may fly. Heb. let fowl fly. This marginal reading is more conformable to the original, and reconciles this passage with ch.
Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air...
. The word fowl, from the Saxon fleon, to fly, exactly corresponds to the original, which denotes every thing that flies, whether bird or insect.
open firmament. Heb. face of the firmament.
Genesis 1:7,14 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament...