“ And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. ”
- 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. פ...
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 stor...
verses 8-14 Figure of speech Parecbasis. App-6. onyx. Hebrew. shoham, identified with Assyr. samtu, from that region.
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. There is bdellium (בדלח bedolach) and the onyx stone, אבן השהם eben hashshoham - Bochart thinks that the bedolach or bdell...
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. Bdellium, [Hebrew, habªdolach ( H916 )]. What substance is meant by this word has been a subject of much discussi...
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:...
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THE CREATION Genesis 1:1-31 ; Genesis 2:1-25 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...
Man in Eden, Innocence Genesis 2:1-17 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 exh...
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" s...
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 to...
And the gold of that land is good ,.... Arabia was famous for gold: Diodorus Siculus x speaks of gold in Arabia, called "apyrus", which is not melted by fire out of small filings, as other; but as s...
And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone. Ver. 12. And the gold of that land is good. ] But pale, because it feareth, saith one, wittily, those many that lie in...
A river went out of Eden This river, branching itself into four streams, contributed much both to the pleasantness and fertility of the garden. Hiddekel and Euphrates are rivers of Babylon: but...
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 occupie...
The Garden of Eden. B. C. 4004. 8 And the L ORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden...
Good, i.e. better than ordinary. Bdellium, which signifies either a precious gum, of which see Numbers 11:7 , or gems and pearls. Once for all observe, that many of the Hebrew words or names o...
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 (Lord God), a usage rep...
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 G...
Genesis 2:10-14 Attempts have been made to find out what rivers are here spoken of by Moses, and where they are to be found. But the description in Genesis was purposely intended to baffle and def...
Genesis 2:1-8 . 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 wo...
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 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....
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 p...
The Garden of Eden
Numbers 11:7 onyx. Exodus 28:20 Exodus 39:13 Job 28:16 Ezekiel 28:13