Before it was in the earth, i.e. when as yet there were no plants, nor so much as seeds of them, there. Before it grew, to wit, out of the earth, as afterwards they did by God's appointment. The two great means of the growth of plants and herbs, viz. rain from heaven, and the labour of man, were both lacking, to show that they were now brought forth by God's almighty power and word.
Verse Genesis 2:5. _EVERY PLANT OF THE FIELD BEFORE IT WAS IN THE EARTH_] It appears that God created every thing, not only perfect as it respects its nature, but also in a state of _maturity_, so tha...
- Part II. The development - Section II - The Man - X. The Field 4. תולדות _tôl__e__dôt_ “generations, products, developments.” That which comes from any source, as the child from the parent, the...
II. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH Man in Innocency before the Fall Genesis 2:4-45 _ 1. The earth his abode (Genesis 2:4)_ 2. The creation of man (Genesis 2:7) 3. The garden of Eden...
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 b...
The narrative begins with the words In the day, but the construction is uncertain. Perhaps Genesis 2:5 f. is a parenthesis, so that man was formed at the period when earth and heaven (J's phrase for P...
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 b...
EVERY PLANT, &C. This is an expansion of Genesis 1:11; Genesis 1:12, giving details. FOR. Three reasons why plants in ground "before they grew": (1) no rain; (2) no man; (3)no mist: see Genesis 2:6....
_And no plant_, &c. If, as is possible, Genesis 2:5 are a parenthesis then Genesis 2:7 carries on the sentence of Genesis 2:4 b. The whole sentence would then run, "At the time when Jehovah Elohim mad...
The Creation of Man 4. _in the day that_ There is no allusion here to the Days of Creation. It is simply the vivid Hebrew idiom for "at the time when." _the Lord God_ The Hebrew words "Jahveh Elohim...
AND EVERY PLANT OF THE FIELD, BEFORE IT WAS IN THE EARTH— That is, God when he made the heavens and the earth, made also, by his immediate power, every plant in its state of perfection, with its seed...
PART EIGHT: THE BEGINNING OF HOMO SAPIENS Genesis 2:4-7 1. _Diagrammatic Review_ of Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3 Day Day 1. Energy, Matter-in Motion, Light CREATION 4. Chronol
_AND EVERY PLANT OF THE FIELD BEFORE IT WAS IN THE EARTH, AND EVERY HERB OF THE FIELD BEFORE IT GREW: FOR THE LORD GOD HAD NOT CAUSED IT TO RAIN UPON THE EARTH, AND THERE WAS NOT A MAN TO TILL THE GRO...
2:5 grew; (i-21) Or 'no shrub ... was yet in the earth and no herb ... had yet grown.'...
PARADISE AND THE FALL In 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...
AND THE EVENING, etc.] RV 'and there was evening and there was morning, one day.' In the endeavour to bring the Creation story into harmony with the ascertained results of science, it is often maintai...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 2 GOD RESTS V1 So the sky and the earth were complete. Everything that was in them was complete. V2 On the seventh day, God had finished his work...
The plants that man needed for his food were not growing. There were two reasons for this. • There was not enough water for them. But God could send that. • There was nobody to look after them. And...
(5)AND EVERY PLANT... — The Authorised Version follows the LXX. in so translating this as to make it simply mean that God created vegetation. The more correct rendering is, “There was no shrub of the...
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...
וְ כֹ֣ל ׀ שִׂ֣יחַ הַ שָּׂדֶ֗ה טֶ֚רֶם יִֽהְיֶ֣
THE CREATION Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1 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 plan...
MAN IN EDEN, INNOCENCE Genesis 2:1 The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from the use of the same term for God- _Elohim._ God's Rest was not from weariness, or exhaustion,...
This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account. First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed" su...
MAN IS DIFFERENT Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to (d) rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till th...
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. The tree of life, (Genesis 2:9) perhaps an emblem, or token...
5._And every plant _This verse is connected with the preceding, and must be read in continuation with it; for he annexes the plants and herbs to the earth, as the garment with which the Lord has adorn...
In chapter 2 we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion as such. Hence the LORD [1] God is introduced: not merely God as a creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. Hen...
AND EVERY PLANT OF THE FIELD, BEFORE IT WAS IN THE EARTH,.... That is, God made it, even he who made the heavens and the earth; for these words depend upon the preceding, and are in close connection w...
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the gr...
Gen. 2:5. "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to ti...
_Every plant before it was in the earth_ That is, when there was neither any plant, nor so much as any seed from which any could spring: and when, as is here observed, the two great means of the growt...
1 The first Sabbath. 4 The maner of the creation. 8 The planting of the garden of Eden, 10 and the riuer thereof. 17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19-20 The naming of the creatures. 21 T...
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the grou...
The creation of Adam...
SECOND SECTION _Man—Paradise—the Paradisaical Pair and the Paradisaical Institutions,—Theocratic—Jehovistic._ GENESIS 2:4-25. A. The Earth waiting for Man. 4These are the generations [genealogies]...
THE SEVENTH DAY The first three verses here are directly connected with chapter 1. "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished." The work of the first creation occupied s...
4-7 Here is a name given to the Creator, "Jehovah." Where the word "LORD" is printed in capital letters in our English Bibles, in the original it is "Jehovah." Jehovah is that name of God, which deno...
The chapter introduces to our notice two prominent subjects, namely, "the seventh day" and "the river." The first of these demands special attention. There are few subjects on which so much misunderst...
Genesis 2:5 before H2962 plant H7880 field H7704 earth H776 before H2962 herb H6212 field H7704 grown H6779 ...
MAN'S ESTABLISHMENT AND FALL (GENESIS 2:4 TO GENESIS 3:24) TABLET II. Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God is called Yahweh Elohim (Lor
THE TREE-COVERED PLAIN IN EDEN (GENESIS 2:4). ‘In the day that the Lord God made earth and heavens, when no plant (siach) of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb (‘eseb) of the field had yet sp...
Genesis 2:1. 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 whi...
CONTENTS: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Genesis 1:27 explained. The Edenic covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Adam, Eve. CONCLUSION: Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. The real man i...
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 si...
_Every plant of the field_ THE LEAF One of the most beautiful scientific generalizations was the result, not of the patient, persevering researches of the naturalist, but of the dreamy reverie of a...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:4 Earth’s First People. Centered initially on the garden of Eden, the episodes in this part of Genesis 1:1 recount how God’s ordered creation is thrown
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 2:4. Generations] Heb. “births” = “birth-facts,” “birth-stages” = “genesis:” Sept., “This is the book of the genesis,” &c. LORD GOD] Heb. Jehovah Elohim. The correct pronuncia...
§ 2. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH (Genesis 2:4-1). EXPOSITION THE subject handled in the present section is the primeval history of man in his paradisiacal state of innocence, his...
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 mad...
plant. Genesis 1:12 Psalms 104:14 had not. Job 5:10 Job 38:26 Psalms 65:9...
THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING AGAIN Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the Bible, and in its opening Chapter s we have the...