The giving of a name implies a power of discrimination and reflection not possessed by the lower animals. Even proper names in the Scriptures are usually significant and descriptive of some quality supposed to be possessed by the person who bears it. Cp. e.g. the importance attached to the 'name' by which God is known: see on Exodus 3:13.
Verse Genesis 2:19. _OUT OF THE GROUND, C._] Concerning the formation of the different kinds of animals, see the preceding chapter....
Here, as in several previous instances Genesis 1:5; Genesis 2:4, Genesis 2:8, the narrative reverts to the earlier part of the sixth day. This is, therefore, another example of the connection accordin...
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...
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...
GROUND: giving the details of Genesis 1:24. CREATURE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See Genesis 1:20 and App-13....
_And out of the ground_ The animals _also_(LXX adds ἔτι; so also Sam.) are "formed," or "moulded," out of the ground, like man: see Genesis 2:7. They are brought into man's presence to see whether the...
The Creation of Animals and of Woman 18. _It is not good_, &c. Man is created a social animal. His full powers cannot be developed by physical and mental work alone; nor his moral being by self-discip...
AND OUT OF THE GROUND GOD FORMED, &C.— _Had_ formed beast and fowl; see remarks on Genesis 2:20; Genesis 2:1 : It seems probable that this account of the review of the creatures taken by Adam, was app...
PART NINE: THE BEGINNING OF SOCIETY (Genesis 2:8-25) And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow ev...
_AND OUT OF THE GROUND THE LORD GOD FORMED EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD, AND EVERY FOWL OF THE AIR; AND BROUGHT THEM UNTO ADAM TO SEE WHAT HE WOULD CALL THEM: AND WHATSOEVER ADAM CALLED EVERY LIVING CREAT...
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...
God had told man to rule over all the animals. (See Genesis 1:28.) So God did not give names to the animals. God let man do that....
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...
OUT OF THE GROUND. — The adâmâh; thus the physical constituents of the animals are the same as those of the body of man. Much curious speculation has arisen from the mistaken idea that the order here...
וַ יִּצֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים מִן ־הָֽ אֲדָמָ֗
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 AND WOMAN, TEMPTATION Genesis 2:18; Genesis 3:1 Human love is God's best gift to man. Without it even Eden would not be Paradise. That Adam was able to name the animals, affixing a title suggeste...
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...
A HELP SUITED TO MAN Everything had been good until man was created. Then God observed, "It is not good that man should be alone" (2:18). God planned to make a helper (aid) "corresponding to him" or...
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto (n) Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living...
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 1 Timothy 2:13; Ephesians 5:31. As the apostle speaks of this as a figure, and we know that Adam was...
19._And out of the ground the Lord God formed, etc _(144) This is a more ample exposition of the preceding sentence, for he says that, of all the animals, when they had been placed in order, not one w...
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 OUT OF THE GROUND THE LORD GOD FORMED EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD, AND EVERY FOWL OF THE AIR,.... Or "had formed them" e on the fifth and sixth days; and these were formed two and two, male and femal...
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living crea...
_God brought all the beasts to Adam_ Either by the ministry of angels, or by a special instinct, that he might name them, and so might give a proof of his knowledge, the names he gave them being perfe...
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 out of the ground the Lord formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature,...
The Lack of Companionship for Man...
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...
ADAM: Or, the man...
18-25 Power over the creatures was given to man, and as a proof of this he named them all. It also shows his insight into the works of God. But though he was lord of the creatures, yet nothing in thi...
BROUGHT THEM UNTO ADAM, either by winds, or angels, or by their own secret instinct, by which storks, and cranes, and swallows change their places with the season; partly to own their subjection to hi...
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 2:19 ground H127 LORD H3068 God H430 formed H3335 (H8799) beast H2416 field H7704 bird H5775 air...
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...
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
‘And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper who is suitable for him (literally ‘as in front of him')”. And out of the ground the Lord God formed (or had...
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...
_That was the name thereof_ THE NAMING OF THE ANIMALS BY ADAM 1. The man was thus to be made conscious of his lordship over the animal tribes. 2. In token of his relations to them, respectively, h...
_I will make him an help meet for him_ THE CREATION OF WOMAN I. WOMAN WAS BROUGHT TO MAN IN ORDER THAT SHE MIGHT RELIEVE HIS SOLITUDE BY INTELLIGENT COMPANIONSHIP. II. WOMAN WAS BROUGHT TO MAN THAT...
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 2:18. Help meet] Prob. “according to his front” (Dav.) or “corresponding to him” (Ges., Fürst, Dav.). GENESIS 2:19. TO SEE WHAT HE WOULD CALL THEM] Or: “that he [Adam] might...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 2:18 In anticipation of the ensuing narrative of the temptation and the fall, the historian, having depicted man's settlement in Eden, advances to complete his _dramatis personae _...
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...
And out. Genesis 1:20 brought. Genesis 2:22 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 1:26 Genesis
ADAM AND EVE Genesis 2:19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Genesis is the Book of beginnings. The only thing, so far as man is concerned, before Genesis, is God. Revelation is the Book of the beginning again. We...
Genesis 2:19 —How can we explain the difference in the order of creation events between Genesis 1 and 2? PROBLEM: Genesis 1 declares that animals were created before humans, but...