Genesis 2:4 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 2:4-7

In these verses, I. Here is a name given to the Creator which we have not yet met with, and that is Jehovah?the LORD, in capital letters, which are constantly used in our English translation to intimate that in the original it is Jehovah. All along, in the first chapter, he was called Elohim?a God of power; but now Jehovah Elohim?a God of power and perfection, a finishing God. As we find him known by his name Jehovah when he appeared to perform what he had promised (Exod. 6:3), so now we have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:4

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth, when they were created ,.... That is, the above account, delivered in the preceding chapter, is a history of the production of the heavens and earth, and of all things in them; the creation of them being a kind of generation, and the day of their creation a sort of birthday; see Genesis 5:1 . in the day that the Lord God made the earth, and the heavens ; meaning not any particular day, not the first day, in which the heavens and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4

In the day that the Lord God made, etc. - The word יהוה Yehovah is for the first time mentioned here. What it signifies see the note on Exodus 34:5 , Exodus 34:6 . Wherever this word occurs in the sacred writings we translate it Lord, which word is, through respect and reverence, always printed in capitals. Though our English term Lord does not give the particular meaning of the original word, yet it conveys a strong and noble sense. Lord is a contraction of the Anglo-Saxon, Hlaford... read more

John Calvin

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

Verse 4 4.These are the generations (108) The design of Moses was deeply to impress upon our minds the origin of the heaven and the earth, which he designates by the word generation. For there have always been ungrateful and malignant men, who, either by feigning, that the world was eternal or by obliterating the memory of the creations would attempt to obscure the glory of God. Thus the devil, by his guile, turns those away from God who are more ingenious and skillful than others in order that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:4

These are the generations is the usual heading for the different sections into which the Book of Genesis is divided (vial. Genesis 5:1 ; Genesis 6:9 ; Genesis 10:1 ; Genesis 11:10 , Genesis 11:27 ; Genesis 25:12 , Genesis 25:19 ; Genesis 36:1 ; Genesis 37:2 ). Misled by the LXX ; who render toldoth by ἡ βιμβλος γενεμσεως , Ranks, Title, Havernick, Tuch, Ewald, and Stahelin disconnect the entire verse from the second section, which says nothing about the origination... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:4-7

§ 2. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH (Gen. 2:4-4:26). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:4-7

Man the living soul. 1. Life is a Divine bestowment. 2. Dust which is Divinely inspired is no longer mere dust; the true life is neither groveling on the earth, nor so much away from the earth as to be no longer the life of a living soul. 3. The creature who is last formed, and for whom all other things wait and are prepared, is made to be the interpreter of all, and the glory of God in them.— R . read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:4-7

- Part II. The development- Section II - The Man- X. The Field4. תולדות tôledôt “generations, products, developments.” That which comes from any source, as the child from the parent, the record of which is history.יהוה yehovâh. This word occurs about six thousand times in Scripture. It is obvious from its use that it is, so to speak, the proper name of God. It never has the article. It is never changed for construction with another noun. It is never accompanied with a suffix. It is never... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:4

Genesis 2:4. The generations of the heavens That is, a true and full account of their origin or beginning, and of the order in which the sundry parts and creatures therein were formed. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:4-25

2:4-4:26 EARLY HUMAN LIFELife in the Garden of Eden (2:4-25)From this point on, the story concentrates on the people God made, rather than on other features of the created universe. Again the Bible states that the world was not always as it is now, but was prepared stage by stage till it was suitable for human habitation. God created Adam (meaning ‘man’ or ‘mankind’) not out of nothing, but out of materials he had previously created. Like the other animals, Adam had his physical origins in the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 2:4-7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:4

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:4-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:4-7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:4-7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:4-25

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