Genesis 2:3

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 2:1-3

Genesis THE VISION OF CREATION Gen_1:26 - Gen_2:3 . We are not to look to Genesis for a scientific cosmogony, and are not to be disturbed by physicists’ criticisms on it as such. Its purpose is quite another, and far more important; namely, to imprint deep and ineffaceable the conviction that the one God created all things. Nor must it be forgotten that this vision of creation was given to people ignorant of natural science, and prone to fall back into surrounding idolatry. The comparison... 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

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 2:1-10

The Beginning and the Beginning Again Genesis 1:26-31 ; Genesis 2:1-10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the Bible, and in its opening chapters we have the story of the beginning of the original creation, of the earth renewed and blessed, of the creation of man and of woman, of the vision of the Garden of Eden, of the entrance of sin and Satan, of the pronunciation of the curse, etc. The Book of Revelation is the Book of the "new beginning."... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:3

THE SACRED DAY‘And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which god created and made.’ Genesis 2:3 I. Whether the patriarchs were or were not commanded to keep the Sabbath is a thing which we can never know; it is no safe foundation for our thinking ourselves bound to keep it, that the patriarchs kept it before the Law was given, and that the commandment had existed before the time of Moses, and was only confirmed by him and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:2-3

‘And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and he rested (ceased work) on the seventh day from all the work which he had made. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because that in it God rested from all his work which God had created and made.’ Note the distinction again brought out between ‘created’ and ‘made’. There is a clear distinction in activity. God both created and made. First He created the matter which He then through some unexplained process... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:1-4

Genesis 2:1-Numbers : a. Thus in six days God completed His work of creation, and as He reviewed it He uttered the same verdict on the whole, only in a heightened form (“ very good” and not merely “ good” ) that He had uttered on the successive stages. For the whole is not the mere sum of the parts, it is a unity in which these separate parts dovetail into each other and work together in perfect mutual adjustment and co-operation. It is here described as “ the heaven and the earth . . . and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 2:3

God blessed the seventh day, by conferring special honours and privileges upon it above all other days, that it should be a day of solemn rest and rejoicing and celebration of God and his works, and a day of God’s bestowing singular and the best blessings upon his servants and worshippers. He separated it from common use and worldly employments, and consecrated it to the worship of God, that it should be accounted a holy day, and spent in holy works and solemn exercises of religion. Some... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 2:1-3

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 2:2. Rested] “Kept sabbath,” i.e. “observed a sacred, festive quiet.” A good worker does his work well, and leaves off when he has done. The very crown of his work is the pleasure he takes in it when complete. Such is God’s rest; and hence He graciously seeks for intelligent companionship therein: Hebrews 3-4. Genesis 2:3. Created and made] “Made creatively, i.e., perh. by making it anew out of chaos” (Dav.). MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 2:1-3THE DIVINE... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:3

Genesis 2:3 I. Whether the patriarchs were or were not commanded to keep the Sabbath is a thing which we can never know; it is no safe foundation for our thinking ourselves bound to keep it, that the patriarchs kept it before the Law was given, and that the commandment had existed before the time of Moses, and was only confirmed by him and repeated. For if the Law itself be done away in Christ, much more the things before the Law. The Sabbath may have been necessary to the patriarchs, for we... read more