Genesis 2:15

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Genesis 2:15-17

Adam placed into the Garden v. 15. And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. The earthly home of man being ready, he was placed there by Jehovah God to enjoy the peace and the happiness of the garden, but not in a state of inactivity. He was to be the caretaker of the park, to till and develop it, as well as to keep it, probably with reference to an existing power of evil which has as yet not been mentioned. v. 16. And the Lord God commanded... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Genesis 2:4-25

SECOND SECTIONMan—Paradise—the Paradisaical Pair and the Paradisaical Institutions,—Theocratic—Jehovistic. Genesis 2:4-25.A.—The Earth waiting for Man.4These are the generations [genealogies]14 of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day [here the six days are one day] that the Lord God [not God Jehovah, much less God the Eternal. Israel’s God as God of all the world] made the earth and the heavens [the theocratic heavens are completed from the earth], 5And every plant of... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 2:1-17

Man in Eden, Innocence Genesis 2:1-17 The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from the use of the same term for God- Elohim. God’s Rest was not from weariness, or exhaustion, but because His work of Creation was finished. He is ever at work, remember John 5:17 . We enter into His rest, when we cease to worry, and trust Him in all and for all. In Genesis 2:4 , Moses incorporates another of those wonderful God-given narratives, which had been handed down from the lips... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:1-25

This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account. First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed" suggests the figure of the potter, molding to shape, material already existing. It is a scientific fact that all the elements in man's physical life are found in the dust of the ground. Second, "Jehovah God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." This is the final divine act, mysterious and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-24

The Tree-covered Plain in Eden (Genesis 2:4-24 ). ‘In the day that the Lord God made earth and heavens, when no plant (siach) of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb (‘eseb) of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to serve the ground, there used to come up a mist from the earth which watered the whole face of the ground, and the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-25

Man’s Establishment and Fall (Genesis 2:4 to Genesis 3:24 ) TABLET II. Genesis 2:0 and Genesis 3:0 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God is called Yahweh Elohim (Lord God), a usage repeated, and constantly used, all the way through (apart from in the conversation between Eve and the serpent), a phrase which occurs elsewhere in the Pentateuch only once, in Exodus 9:30 where it is connected with the thought that the earth is Yahweh’s. It thus connects with creation. This distinctive... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:15

‘And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Tree-covered Plain of Eden to serve and to guard.’ Notice that the man has already been ‘put’ in the Plain in Genesis 2:8. This stresses again that the writer is not thinking chronologically. One event does not necessarily follow another. While he is telling us what happened it is not in sequence. In Genesis 2:8 his being placed there is mentioned so as to show how God has provided for him. Here it is mentioned to stress God’s purpose in putting... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-17

Genesis 2:4-Esther : . The narrative begins with the words “ In the day,” but the construction is uncertain. Perhaps Genesis 2:5 f. is a parenthesis, so that man was formed at the period when “ earth and heaven” (J’ s phrase for P’ s the heaven and the earth” ) were made, before there was any vegetation. The absence of vegetation is due to the absence of rain and of a man to till the ground. In Genesis 2:6, however, we are told of a “ mist,” or as we should probably render, a “ flood,” which... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-25

Genesis 2:4 b– Genesis 3:24 . J’ s Story of Creation and Paradise Lost.— This story does not belong to P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and point of view. It is distinguished from P’ s creation story by differences in form and in matter. The regular and precise arrangement, the oft-repeated formulæ , the prosaic style are here absent. We have, instead, a bright and vivid style, a story rather than a chronicle. The frank anthropomorphism would have been... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 2:15

Put him, i.e. commanded and inclined him to go. To prune, dress, and order the trees and herbs of the garden, and to keep it from the annoyance of beasts, which being unreasonable creatures, and allowed the use of herbs, might easily spoil the beauty of it. read more

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Genesis 2:15-17

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Genesis 2:4-25

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 2:1-17

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:1-25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-24

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:15

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-17

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-25

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 2:15

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