Genesis 2:6

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

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

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 2:6

There went up, from time to time, by God’s appointment, a vapour, or cloud, which going up into the air, was turned into rain, and fell down again to the earth from whence it arose; whereby the earth was softened, and disposed both to the nourishment of those plants or trees that were created, and to the production of new plants in a natural and ordinary way. But these words may be otherwise understood, the copulative and, here rendered but, being put for the disjunctive or, as it is Exodus... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 2:4-7

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 2:4. Generations] Heb. “births” = “birth-facts,” “birth-stages” = “genesis:” Sept., “This is the book of the genesis,” &c. Lord God] Heb. Jehovah Elohim. The correct pronunciation of J. is prob. Yahweh; formed of the 3 sing. mas. imperf. Hiphil, of hawah, “to be,” or rather “to become,” “to come to pass;” and therefore meaning, “He causes to become,” “He brings to pass;” “The Fulfiller.” This explanation (1.) altogether removes the difficulty from Exodus 6:0, since... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:1-25

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 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 (Gen 2:1-3).So we find the creation of the earth in chapter one; the placing of man upon the earth, and then the declaration that on the seventh day God rested. Not... read more