Genesis 2:24

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 2:24

‘Therefore will a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they will become one flesh.’ It is because of this close relationship between a man and his mate that that relationship supersedes that of his parents. When they enter into sexual union they become one, bound in a relationship closer than any other. Family loyalties still hold, but the loyalty between a man and his wife is primary. Notice that sexual relations are treated as normal and good (in spite of the euphemism... 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 2:24

These are the words of Moses by Divine instinct, or his inference from Adam’s words. Shall a man leave his father and his mother; in regard of habitation and society, but not as to natural duty and affection; and in conjugal relation and highest affection, even above what they owe to their parents, they two (as it is in the Samaritan, Syriac, and Arabic translations, and Matthew 19:5) shall be esteemed by themselves and others to be as entirely and inseparably united, and shall have as intimate... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 2:18-25

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 2:18. Help meet] Prob. “according to his front” (Dav.) or “corresponding to him” (Ges., Fürst, Dav.). Genesis 2:19. To see what He would call them] Or: “that he [Adam] might see what he should call them.” Either rendering is valid. Genesis 2:21. Deep sleep] Sept. extasis = “trance.” Genesis 2:23. This] An exclamation of joyful satisfaction. Prob. no Eng. trans. can give out the striking threefold repetition of the feminine pronoun zoth: “THIS (fem.)—NOW—is bone of my... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:24

Genesis 2:24 I. The gift of speech to Adam was in itself a sublime prophecy that man was not to remain alone and without a companion in the garden where God had placed him. Glorious as man's condition was, there was yet a want the shadow of some yearning hung upon his brow. The sleep that fell upon Adam was no common sleep, like that of wearied humanity; it was something higher. The old Greek translation has it "an ecstasy." It was a prophetic sleep. While he slept, the Lord God built for him a... 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 2:18-25

Genesis 2:18-25I will make him an help meet for himThe creation of womanI.WOMAN WAS BROUGHT TO MAN IN ORDER THAT SHE MIGHT RELIEVE HIS SOLITUDE BY INTELLIGENT COMPANIONSHIP. II. WOMAN WAS BROUGHT TO MAN THAT SHE MIGHT BE HIS HELPMEET IN THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE. 1. To develop his intellectual thinkings. 2. To culture his moral sympathies. 3. To aid him in the daily needs of life. 4. To join him in his worship of God. III. WOMAN WAS BROUGHT TO MAN THAT SHE MIGHT RECEIVE HIS LOVE, PROTECTION, AND... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 2:24

Genesis 2:24Cleave unto his wifeMarriageI.THE NATURE AND END OF MARRIAGE. It is a vow of perpetual and indissoluble friendship. 1. It has long been observed that friendship is to be confined to one: or that, to use the words of the axiom, “He that hath friends, has no friend.” That ardour of kindness, that unbounded confidence, that unsuspecting security which friendship requires, cannot be extended beyond a single object. 2. It is remarked, that friendship amongst equals is the most lasting,... read more

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

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

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 2:24

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 2:18-25

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:24

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 2:18-25

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 2:24

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