Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in (f) Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
(f) This was the name of a place, as some think in Mesopotamia, most pleasant and abundant in all things.
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in (f) Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
(f) This was the name of a place, as some think in Mesopotamia, most pleasant and abundant in all things.
Verse Genesis 2:8. _A GARDEN EASTWARD IN EDEN_] Though the word עדן _Eden_ signifies _pleasure_ or _delight_, it is certainly the name of a place. See Genesis 4:16; 2 Kings 19:12;...
- XI. The Garden 8. גן _gan_ “garden, park,” παράδεισος _paradeisos_, “an enclosed piece of ground.” עדן _‛__ēden_ “Eden, delight.” קדם _qedem_ “fore-place, east; foretime.” 11....
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...
VERSES 8-14 Figure of speech _Parecbasis._ App-6. GARDEN. This garden may be additional to Genesis 1:11; Genesis 1:12; Genesis 2:4; Genesis 2:5
The Garden in Eden 8. _a garden_ More strictly "an enclosure." LXX παράδεισον, Lat. _paradisum_, a word borrowed from the Persian, and meaning "a park-like enclosure." Its use here has given rise to t...
PLANTED A GARDEN— It pleased God to provide for man, when formed, a proper place of reception, a garden. The Hebrew word גן _gan,_ which we render _garden,_ and frequently, _paradise,_ signifies, prop...
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 THE LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN EASTWARD IN EDEN; AND THERE HE PUT THE MAN WHOM HE HAD FORMED._ And the Lord God planted a garden. It is the dictate of nature for parents to provide for their offs...
2:8 Eden (a-8) Pleasure....
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...
A GARDEN] LXX renders by 'Paradeisos' (a Persian word meaning 'a park'), hence the English 'Paradise.' EASTWARD] i.e. of Palestine, such as Babylonia would be. EDEN] The Heb. word _eden_ means 'deligh...
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 LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN. — The order followed in the text, namely, man first and the garden afterwards, is not that of chronology, but of precedence. In Genesis 2:15 we find that the garden was...
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...
וַ יִּטַּ֞ע יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים גַּן ־בְּ עֵ֖דֶ
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...
Of pleasure, Hebrew Eden, which may be either the name of a country, as chap. iv. 16, or it may signify pleasure, in which sense Symmachus and St. Jerome have taken it. --- From the beginning, or on t...
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...
_THE GARDEN OF EDEN_ ‘And the Lord God formed man of the dust … and the Lord God planted a garden.’ Genesis 2:7 We generally speak of our parents, Adam and Eve, when they ate the forbidden fruit, a...
8._And the Lord God planted _(117) Moses now adds the condition and rule of living which were given to man. And, first, he narrates in what part of the world he was placed, and what a happy and pleasa...
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 THE LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN EASTWARD IN EDEN,.... Or "had planted" m, for this was not now done after the formation of man, but before; and so the word translated "eastward" may be rendered, as...
_And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed._ Ver. 8. _And the Lord God planted._] Had planted (to wit, on the third day, when he made trees) for...
_The Lord God planted_ Or, _had planted_, namely, on the third day, when he created _the fruit-tree yielding fruit; a garden_ A place peculiarly pleasant, a _paradise_, separated, it seems, from the r...
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 the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom He had formed. Although the entire work of creation was perfect, God chose to do still more for man by planting an enc...
The Garden of Eden...
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...
8-14 The place fixed upon for Adam to dwell in, was not a palace, but a garden. The better we take up with plain things, and the less we seek things to gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approac...
He had PLANTED, viz. on the third day, when he made the plants and trees to grow out of the ground, a place of the choicest plants and fruits, most beautiful and pleasant. EASTWARD, from the place whe...
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 2:8 LORD H3068 God H430 planted H5193 (H8799) garden H1588 eastward H6924 Eden H5731 there H8033 put...
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...
‘And the Lord God planted a tree-covered area (gan - possibly a “place shaded over” i.e. by trees) in Eden, eastward, and there he put the man whom he had formed.' The word ‘planted' is a vivid anthr...
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
Genesis 2:8 _(with Genesis 3:22)_ I. Our first parents are discovered in a state of innocence, beauty, and blessedness, which is broken up utterly by the transgression of the Divine command. (1) To E...
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...
_The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden_ THE GARDEN OF EDEN I. IN THIS GARDEN PROVISION WAS MADE FOR THE HAPPINESS OF MAN. 1. The garden was beautiful. 2. The garden was fruitful. 3. The...
FOUR GARDENS And the Lord God planted a garden eastward, in Eden. Genesis 2:8. I wonder how many of you have gardens of your own I don't mean your father's and mother's garden, but your very own lit...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:8 God provides a suitable environment for the man by planting a GARDEN IN EDEN, IN THE EAST. The name “Eden” suggests luxury and pleasure. It probably refers to a region much...
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 2:14. East of Assyria] So Ges. and Dav. Lit., “before A.” wh. to a writer in Pal. is = west (Fürst). GENESIS 2:17. SURELY DIE] Heb. “die, die shalt thou;” as in Genesis 2:16...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 2:8 In accordance with a well-known characteristic of Hebrew composition, the writer, having carried his subject forward to a convenient place of rest, now reverts to a point of ti...
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...
a garden. Genesis 13:10 Ezekiel 28:13 Ezekiel 31:8 Ezekiel 31:9 Joel 2:3 eas
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...
Man consisting of body and soul, a body made out of the earth, and a rational immortal soul, we have in these verses the provision that was made for the happiness of both. That part of man, which is a...
Was the Garden of Eden a real place or just a myth? PROBLEM: The Bible declares that God “planted a garden eastward in Eden” (Genesis 2:8), but there is no archaeological evidence that any such place...