Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Genesis 2:15
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to (k) dress it and to keep it.
(k) God would not have man idle, though as yet there was no need to labour.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to (k) dress it and to keep it.
(k) God would not have man idle, though as yet there was no need to labour.
Verse Genesis 2:15. _PUT HIM INTO THE GARDEN - TO DRESS IT, AND TO KEEP IT._] Horticulture, or gardening, is the first kind of employment on record, and that in which man was engaged while in a state...
- XII. The Command 15. נוּח _nûach_ “rest, dwell.” עבד _‛__ābad_ “work, till, serve.” שׁמר _shāmar_ “keep, guard.” We have here the education of man summed up in a single sentence. Let us endeavo...
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...
THE MAN. Hebrew. _'eth_. _ha'adham_. this same man Adam. See App-14. KEEP. keep safe, preserve. Same Hebrew as Genesis 3:24; Genesis 17:9; Genesis 17:10;...
This verse resumes the subject matter of Genesis 2:9, which has been interrupted by the description of the rivers. _to dress it and to keep it_ The Lord God puts man into the garden for a life, not of...
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 NAME OF THE THIRD RIVER IS HIDDEKEL: THAT IS IT WHICH GOETH TOWARD THE EAST OF ASSYRIA. AND THE FOURTH RIVER IS EUPHRATES._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
DRESS] i.e. cultivate. KEEP] i.e. protect (from the beasts)....
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...
AND THE LORD GOD TOOK THE MAN (THE ADAM), AND PUT HIM INTO THE GARDEN OF EDEN. — The narrative now reverts to Genesis 2:8, but the word translated _put_ is not the same in both places. Here it literal...
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 יִּקַּ֛ח יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת ־הָֽ אָדָ֑ם
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...
_To dress it. Behold God would not endure idleness even in Paradise. (Haydock)_...
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...
15._And the Lord God took the man _Moses now adds, that the earth was given to man, with this condition, that he should occupy himself in its cultivation. Whence it follows that men were created to em...
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 TOOK THE MAN, AND PUT HIM INTO THE GARDEN OF EDEN,.... This is observed before in Genesis 2:8 and is here repeated to introduce what follows; and is to be understood not of a corporea...
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Ver. 15. _To dress it, and to keep it._] This he did as without necessity, so without pains, without wea...
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...
Adam placed into the Garden...
And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. The earthly home of man being ready, he was placed there by Jehovah God to enjoy the peace and the happine...
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...
THE MAN: Or, Adam...
15 After God had formed Adam, he put him in the garden. All boasting was thereby shut out. Only he that made us can make us happy; he that is the Former of our bodies, and the Father of our spirits,...
PUT HIM, i.e. commanded and inclined him to go. To prune, dress, and order the trees and herbs of the garden, AND TO KEEP IT from the annoyance of beasts, which being unreasonable creatures, and allow...
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 2:15 LORD H3068 God H430 took H3947 (H8799) man H120 put H3240 (H8686) garden H1588 Eden...
‘And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Tree-covered Plain of Eden to serve and to guard.' Notice that the man has already been ‘put' in the Plain in Genesis 2:8. This stresses again that th...
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...
_To dress it and to keep it_ OBSERVATIONS I. EVERY SON OF ADAM IS BOUND TO SOME EMPLOYMENT OR OTHER IN A PARTICULAR CALLING. This ordinance of God concerning man’s labour (as are all the rest of His...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:15 The overall picture of Eden suggests that the park-like garden is part of a divine sanctuary. THE MAN is PUT in the garden TO WORK IT AND KEEP IT. Since
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...
the man. or, Adam. Genesis 2:2 Job 31:33 put. Genesis 2:8 Psalms 128:2 Ephesians 4:2