Genesis 2:6-7 NIV

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 2:6

But there went up a mist from the earth ,.... After the waters had been drained off from it, and it was warmed by the body of light and heat created on the first day, which caused a vapour, which went up as a mist, and descended: and watered the whole face of the ground ; or earth, and so supplied the place of rain, until that was given: though rather the words may be rendered disjunctively, "or there went up" F7 ואד יעלה "aut vapor ascendens", Junius & Tremellius. ; that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:7

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground ,.... Not of dry dust, but, as Josephus F8 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 1. says, of red earth macerated, or mixed with water; the like notion Hesiod F9 Opera & dies, ver. 60. has; or out of clay, as in Job 33:6 hence a word is made use of, translated "formed", which is used of the potter that forms his clay into what shape he pleases: the original matter of which man was made was clay; hence the clay of Prometheus F11 Martial.... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:6

There went up a mist - This passage appears to have greatly embarrassed many commentators. The plain meaning seems to be this, that the aqueous vapours, ascending from the earth, and becoming condensed in the colder regions of the atmosphere, fell back upon the earth in the form of dews, and by this means an equal portion of moisture was distributed to the roots of plants, etc. As Moses had said, Genesis 2:5 , that the Lord had not caused it to rain upon the earth, he probably designed to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:7

God formed man of the dust - In the most distinct manner God shows us that man is a compound being, having a body and soul distinctly, and separately created; the body out of the dust of the earth, the soul immediately breathed from God himself. Does not this strongly mark that the soul and body are not the same thing? The body derives its origin from the earth, or as עפר aphar implies, the dust; hence because it is earthly it is decomposable and perishable. Of the soul it is said, God... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:7

Verse 7 7.And the Lord God formed man He now explains what he had before omitted in the creation of man, that his body was taken out of the earth. He had said that he was formed after the image of God. This is incomparably the highest nobility; and, lest men should use it as an occasion of pride, their first origin is placed immediately before them; whence they may learn that this advantage was adventitious; for Moses relates that man had been, in the beginning, dust of the earth. Let foolish... 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:6

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. The dry land having been separated from the waters, and the atmospheric ocean uplifted above them both, vaporous exhalations began to ascend to the aerial regions, and to return again in the shape of rain upon the ground. Jehovah thus caused it to rain upon the ground, and so prepared it for the vegetation which, in obedience to the Almighty fiat, sprung up at the close of the third day, although the writer... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:7

And the Lord God (Jehovah Elohim) formed man of the dust of the ground. Literally, dust from the ground. Here, again, Bleek, Kalisch, and the theologians of their school discover contrariety between this account of man's creation and that which has been given in the preceding chapter. In that man is represented as having been created by the Divine word, in the Divine image, and male and female simultaneously; whereas in this his creation is exhibited as a painful process of elaboration... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 2:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:4-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:4-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:7

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