Génesis 6:2-Números RVA

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 6:2

the sons of God = angels. See App-23 , and App-26 . God = ha-Elohim = the Creator. men: in contrast with angels. Hebrew. ha-'adham, singular. the man Adam. See App-14 . they: emph. wives = women. Genesis 2:22 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:1-2

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose."The problem that immediately confronts us here regards the identity of the "sons of God." All efforts to identify these with angels or other supernatural creatures should be rejected.THE "SONS OF GOD" WERE NOT ANGELSThe reasons why this passage cannot be applied either to... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 6:1-2

Genesis 6:1-2. Men began—daughters—sons of God, &c — An evident distinction has been made in sacred scripture between the children of God and the children of men; between those who were the true servants of Jehovah, and those who were the slaves of their own evil desires and passions. The former, by intermarrying with the daughters of those who had apostatized from God or never known him, were drawn themselves into the same degeneracy; whence that universal depravation succeeded, which... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 6:2

2. the sons of God saw the daughters of men—By the former is meant the family of Seth, who were professedly religious; by the latter, the descendants of apostate Cain. Mixed marriages between parties of opposite principles and practice were necessarily sources of extensive corruption. The women, religious themselves, would as wives and mothers exert an influence fatal to the existence of religion in their household, and consequently the people of that later age sank to the lowest depravity. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 6:1-2

There are three major views about the identity of the sons of God.1. They were fallen angels who married women. [Note: The Book of Enoch (a second century B.C. pseudepigrapha); Philo; Josephus; Justin Martyr; Tertullian; Cyprian; Ambrose; Pember; Clarence Larkin The Spirit World; Henry Morris, The Genesis Record; C. Fred Dickason, Angels: Elect and Evil; M. R. DeHaan, 508 Answers to Bible Questions; Boice, 1:245-48; R. S. Hendel, "When the Sons of God Cavorted with the Daughters of Men," Bible... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 6:1-4

The sins of the sons of God 6:1-4 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 6:1-8

2. God’s sorrow over man’s wickedness 6:1-8As wickedness increased on the earth God determined to destroy the human race with the exception of those few people to whom He extended grace."Stories of a great flood sent in primeval times by gods to destroy mankind followed by some form of new creation are so common to so many peoples in different parts of the world, between whom no kind of historical contact seems possible, that the notion seems almost to be a universal feature of the human... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:1-4

The Sons of God and the Daughters of Men1-4. This fragment seems to have been placed here as an instance of the wickedness which necessitated the Flood. Stories of unions between deities and the women of earth, which resulted in gigantic and corrupt races, were common to many nations of antiquity; and it is now generally held that we have here traces of a similar tradition among the Hebrews, which had survived to the writer’s day. But though the passage retains signs of these primitive ideas,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 6:2

(2) The sons of God. . . . —The literal translation of this verse is, And the sons of the Elohim saw the daughters of the adam that they were good (beautiful); and they took to them wives whomsoever they chose. Of the sons of the Elohim there are three principal interpretations: the first, that of the Targums and the chief Jewish expositors, that they were the nobles, and men of high rank; the second, that they were angels. St. Jude, Jude 1:6, and St. Peter, 2 Ep., 2 Peter 2:4, seem to favour... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 6:1-22

The Lesson of the Tower Genesis 6:4 The form of this story belongs to the early stages of an ascending scale of civilization. The soul of the narrative is for all time. Take one obvious aspect of that soul. The builders of city and tower were men of great ambition. They would dare high things and they would do them. This is well, for God made us all for ambition. But it is part of the tragedy of our humanity that each day we are tempted to sully ambition with some phase of latent or expressed... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 6:2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:1-2

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 6:1-2

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 6:2

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 6:1-2

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 6:1-4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 6:1-8

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 6:1-4

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 6:2

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 6:1-22

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