Genesis 2:16, Genesis 2:17 KJV

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 2:4-17

The creation of Man 2:4-17The differences between Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3 and Genesis 2:4-25 have led many literary critics of the Bible to insist that two different writers composed these sections. But the similarities between these sections argue for a common writer. [Note: See William H. Shea, "Literary Structural Parallels between Genesis 1, 2," Origins 16:2(1989):49-68.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 2:4-24

1. The Garden of Eden 2:4-3:24This story has seven scenes that a change in actors, situations or activities identifies. [Note: For a different narrative analysis, see Waltke, Genesis, pp. 80-81.] Moses constructed this section of Genesis in a chiastic (palistrophic, crossing) structure to focus attention on the central scene: the Fall. The preceding scenes lead up to the Fall, and the following scenes describe its consequences. [Note: Wenham, p. 50.] A Scene 1 (narrative): God is the sole... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 2:4-26

B. What became of the creation 2:4-4:26Moses described what happened to the creation by recording significant events in the Garden of Eden, the murder of Abel, and the family of Cain."The section begins with a description of the creation of Adam and Eve and traces their sin, God’s curse on sin, and the expansion of sin in their descendants. No longer at rest, mankind experienced flight and fear, making his way in the world, surviving, and developing civilization. As if in answer to the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 2:16-17

God gave Adam great freedom of choice. He only forbade one of all the trees. God’s command also implies that He alone knows what is good and not good for man. Adam would die because of disobedience, not because of the fruit of the tree. [Note: For a discussion of what God had in mind in the two trees, see Keil and Delitzsch, 1:84-86.] "That famous tree symbolizes the ability to discern good (i.e., what advances life) and evil (i.e., what hinders life). Such knowledge belongs to God alone... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-24

Paradise and the FallIn this famous passage we possess a wealth of moral and spiritual teaching regarding God and man. The intention of the writer is evidently to give an answer to the question: How did sin and misery find their way into the world? As is natural among Orientals he put his reply into narrative form; and though it is generally accepted that the details are to be interpreted symbolically rather than literally, yet they are in marvellous agreement with the real facts of human... read more

John Dummelow

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

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 2:4-25

EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.The Bereshit Rabba argues that Adam and Eve remained in their original state of innocence for six hours only. Others have supposed that the events recorded in Genesis 2:4 to Genesis 3:24 took place in the course of twenty-four hours, and suppose that this is proved by what is said in Genesis 2:4, that the earth and heavens, with Adam and the garden, were all made in one day, before the end of which they suppose that he fell.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 2:16-17

(16, 17) The Lord God commanded.—Probation is the law of man’s moral condition now, and it began in Paradise, only the conditions there were different. (See Excursus at end of this book.)In the day. . . . —Used, as in Genesis 2:4, for an indefinitely long period. But just as on the third day God gave the whole law of vegetation, though trees as the highest development of that law may not have been reached until after the appearance of animal life on the earth, so the law of man’s mortal life... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 2:1-25

The Creator Explained By the Creation Genesis 2:2 Given the Creation, to find the Creator, at least to conjecture about Him. Given the house, to discover something about the builder of it, or the owner or the occupant. It is a large house; very well, then the man behind it, who made it, or is responsible for it, must be a man of some substance and property. It is an artistically furnished house; every piece of furniture has been set down by the hands of love just in the right place and in the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:1-25

THE CREATIONGenesis 1:1-31; Genesis 2:1-25 IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding the order in which plants and animals have appeared upon it, he is referred to recent textbooks in astronomy, geology, and palaeontology. No one for a moment dreams of referring a serious student of these subjects to the Bible as a source of information. It is not the object of the writers of Scripture to impart... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 2:4-17

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 2:4-24

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 2:4-26

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 2:16-17

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4-24

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 2:4-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 2:16-17

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 2:1-25

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:1-25

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