Genesis 2:15

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 2:8-17

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 2:14. East of Assyria] So Ges. and Dav. Lit., “before A.” wh. to a writer in Pal. is = west (Fürst). Genesis 2:17. Surely die] Heb. “die, die shalt thou;” as in Genesis 2:16 “eat, eat shalt thou,” Genesis 3:16, “increase, increase will I:”—“a frequent and quite peculiar idiom for the indication of emphasis” (Ewald). Dying thou shalt die” is misleading, has in fact misled many into groundless subtleties. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 2:8-17THE GARDEN OF... 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

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:1-25

Genesis 2:1. By host is meant, not the angels, as some have thought, but the starry heavens. Psalms 33:6. Genesis 2:2. On the seventh day God ended his work. The Samaritan Pentateuch reads, the sixth day. The variation is accounted for by the variation in reckoning the hours at which the sabbath began. On the sabbath, see Ezekiel 20:12; Ezekiel 20:20. Genesis 2:6. A mist watered the whole face of the ground, the rainy season of the climate not being then come. Deuteronomy 11:14.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 2:15

Genesis 2:15To dress it and to keep itObservationsI.EVERY SON OF ADAM IS BOUND TO SOME EMPLOYMENT OR OTHER IN A PARTICULAR CALLING. This ordinance of God concerning man’s labour (as are all the rest of His laws) is both equal and good. 1. That men might exercise their love to the creatures, wherein they some ways resemble God Himself. 2. That they might have some title, in equity, to the use of the creature, which they preserve by their labour. 3. That by busying themselves about the creatures,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 2:15

Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Ver. 15. To dress it, and to keep it. ] This he did as without necessity, so without pains, without weariness. It was rather his recreation than his occupation. He laboured now by an ordinance; it was after his fall laid upon him as a punishment, Gen 3:19 to eat his bread in the sweat of his nose. God never made any, as he made Leviathan, to sport himself only; or to do, as it is said of the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 2:15

the man: or, Adam, Genesis 2:2, Job 31:33 put: Genesis 2:8, Psalms 128:2, Ephesians 4:28 Reciprocal: Genesis 2:19 - Adam Genesis 5:2 - their John 18:1 - a garden read more

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 2:15

15. Took the man See note on Genesis 2:8. To dress it and to keep it The world was made for man, and it became his noble intellect and skillful hand to give direction to its growths . Man was made for work, and labour was honourable in the primitive Eden . God himself is revealed as working, and furnishing a divine example . Hence the commandment: “Six days shalt thou labour,… for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth . ” Exodus 20:9; Exodus 20:11. To dress, that is, to work and... read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 2:8-17

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:1-25

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:1-25

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 2:15

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 2:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 2:15

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 2:8-15

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:7-25

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:15

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