Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 2:13
Gihon: The Araxes, which runs into the Caspian sea. Ethiopia: Heb. Cush, The country of the ancient Cussaei. Genesis 10:6, Isaiah 11:11 Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:30 - Cuth Isaiah 37:9 - Ethiopia read more
Genesis 2:13
Samuel Bagster
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 2:8-15
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah,... read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-25
The Generations of the Heavens and the Land, Genesis 2:4 to Genesis 4:26. In chapters 1, and Genesis 2:1-3, the sacred writer gives us his account of the creation of the heavens and the land; he now proceeds to give us their generations, תולרות . His historical standpoint is the day from which these generations start; the day when man was formed of the dust of the ground, and of the breath of life from the heavens. So the first man is conceived of as the product of the heavens and the land... read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:7-25
EXCURSUS ON PRIMEVAL MAN. The foregoing narrative of the beginning of human history is singularly simple and free from numerous characteristics of the myths and legends of other nations, as well as from their pantheistic and polytheistic conceptions. “According to the ideas commonly prevailing among the peoples of antiquity,” says Lenormant, “man is regarded as autochthonous, or issued from the earth which bears him. Rarely, in the accounts which treat of his first appearance, do we discover a... read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:13
13. Gihon This name occurs again only as denoting a fountain near Jerusalem . 1 Kings 1:33; 1Ki 1:38 ; 1 Kings 1:45; 2 Chronicles 32:30. Compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia The attempt to explain this as referring to any of the lands subsequently known as Ethiopia, or Cush, are, perhaps, the best possible refutation of the notion that the rivers of Eden are identical with any rivers now known . Cush was evidently the name of a region or country in the land of Eden, and it was very... read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 2:13
Gen 2:13 And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. Ver. 13. The name of the second river is Gihon. ] This is the same, say some, which the Egyptians call Nile. Others make it to be a channel of the river Euphrates, called by those that dwell near it Naharsares. The hill where Solomon was anointed king, was also called Gihon. read more