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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 2 - Introduction

God ceasing from all his works, blesseth the seventh day: plants the garden of Eden: interdicts man from the tree of knowledge: and forms Eve from the side of Adam.

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See also Genesis 2 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Genesis 2:4 b Genesis 3:24 (J). The Story of Paradise: I. The Creation of Man (Genesis 2:4-25). II. The Fall of Man (Genesis 3:1-24) I. The Creat

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART TEN: THE ASSUMPTIONS OF SCIENTISM The word science is from the Latin _scientia,_ which means knowledge; the Greek equivalent is _episteme,_ hence epistemology, the study of the ways of knowing, o...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 God (a-4) Heb. _ Elohim_ , the plural of _ Eloah_ , 'the Supreme'. It is Deity in the absolute sense. _ Elohim_ will, in the text, appear only in the name of _ Jehovah Elohim_ ; moreover, when _...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 2 In this chapter are contained a summary of the works of creation on the six days, and God's resting from his works on the seventh day, and the sanctification of that, Genesi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 1. B.C. 4004._ This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, explaining and enlarging upon that part of it which relates immediately to man. We have in it, ( 1,) _ The institutio...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * The first sabbath. (1-3) Particulars about the creation. (4-7) The planting of the garden of Eden. (8-14) Man is placed in it. (15) God's command. (16,17) The animals named, The making of woman, The...

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