8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Creation

• God Speaks from the Whirlwind

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Sam 2:8 — He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’
• Eccl 11:5 — As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
• Gen 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
• Gen 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
• Heb 1:2 — Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
• Heb 1:10 — And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
• Isa 40:12 — Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
• Isa 40:22 — It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
• Jer 10:12 — He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
• Jer 27:5 — I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
• Job 9:6 — Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
• Job 15:7 — Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
• Job 37:15 — Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
• Prov 8:22 — The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
• Prov 8:25 — Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
• Prov 8:29 — When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
• Prov 8:29 — When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
• Prov 25:2 — It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
• Prov 30:4 — Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and w
• Prov 30:4 — Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and w
• Ps 18:15 — Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
• Ps 24:2 — For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
• Ps 90:2 — Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
• Ps 102:25 — Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
• Ps 102:25 — Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
• Ps 104:5 — Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
• Ps 104:5 — Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
• Ps 119:90 — Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.