Genesis 2:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. ”

Genesis 2:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Part II. The development - Section II - The Man - X. The Field 4. תולדות tôl e dôt “generations, products, developments.” That which comes from any source, as the child from th...
Genesis 2:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

But . and. mist . no mist... to water. The last of two or three negatives not necessary. Must be supplied by Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6. a), as in Deuteronomy 33:6 ; 1 Samuel 2:3 . Psalm...
Genesis 2:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. There went up a mist - This passage appears to have greatly embarrassed many commentators. The plain meaning seems t...
Genesis 2:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground - Hebrew х 'eed ( H108 )],...
Genesis 2:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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:...
Genesis 2:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 supp...
Genesis 2:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Genesis 2:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Genesis 2:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Genesis 2:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Genesis 2:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But there went up a mist from the earth ,.... After the waters had been drained off from it, and it was warmed by the body of light and heat created on the first day, which caused a vapour, which we...
Genesis 2:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. Ver. 6. But there went up a mist. ] The matter of rain: and hereby God tempered the mortar whereof he would make...
Genesis 2:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

There went up At certain times, it seems, as God appointed; a mist or vapour from the earth Issuing from the abyss, or great deep of water in its bowels; (see Genesis 7:14 ;) and watered the...
Genesis 2:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 2:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Creation. B. C. 4004. 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the eart...
Genesis 2:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There went up, from time to time, by God's appointment, a vapour, or cloud, which going up into the air, was turned into rain, and fell down again to the earth from whence it arose; whereby t...
Genesis 2:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 2:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 2:4 . Generations] Heb. “births” = “birth-facts,” “birth-stages” = “genesis:” Sept., “This is the book of the genesis,” &c. Lord God ] Heb. Jehovah Elohim. The corre...
Genesis 2:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 2:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Genesis 2:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

§ 2. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH ( Genesis 2:4-1 ). EXPOSITION THE subject handled in the present section is the primeval history of man in his paradisiacal st...
Genesis 2:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The creation of Adam
Genesis 2:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

there went up a mist. or, a mist which went up. Genesis 2:6
Genesis 2:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Beginning and the Beginning Again Genesis 1:26-31 ; Genesis 2:1-10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the Bible, and in its opening Chapter...

Genesis 2:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 2:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 2:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 2:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 2:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 2:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 2:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 2:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 2:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 2:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 2:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 2:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 2:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 2:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 2:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary