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
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