Genesis 3:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. ”

Genesis 3:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- XVI. The Judgment 15. שׁוּף shûp “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (= τερεῖν ?) tērein ἐκτρίβειν ektribein Job 9:17 , καταπατεῖν katapatein Psalms 139:11 , συντρίβειν...
Genesis 3:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] (i) naked; and I hid myself. (i) His hypocrisy appears in that he hid the cause of his nakedness, which was the transg...
Genesis 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Among the animals formed by Yahweh, in His first attempt to provide man with a companion, was the serpent; at that time either a quadruped or holding itself erect. It was eminent among its fellows fo...
Genesis 3:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

10. And he said, I heard thy voice. Although this seems to be the confession of a dejected and humbled man, it will nevertheless soon appear that he was not yet properly subdued, nor led to r...
Genesis 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. I was afraid, because I was naked - See the immediate consequences of sin. 1. Shame, because o...
Genesis 3:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Because I was naked— That is, not only naked in body, but, what much more occasions my fear, naked in mind through sin; guilty, and stript of my original righteousness, and therefore ashamed to sta...
Genesis 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. It is probable, as Kennicott suggests, that God had called more than once, or that the so...
Genesis 3:10 - 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 3:10 - 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 3:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FALL Genesis 3:1-24 PROFOUND as the teaching of this narrative is, its meaning does not lie on the surface. Literal interpretation will reach a measure of its significance, but plainly ther...
Genesis 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's Condemnation of Adam and Eve Genesis 3:9-21 God does not wait for Adam to find his own way back, but hastens in search of him. “Where art thou” is rendered in one version, Alas for thee....
Genesis 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the second section of the Book of Genesis. As the first has answered questions concerning creation, the second replies to questions asked in the presence of sin and suffering and sorrow....
Genesis 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Observe the immediate effect of sin. Shame, guilt and fear, filled...
Genesis 3:10 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

COWARDICE AND CANT ‘I heard Thy voice … and I was afraid.’ Genesis 3:10 I. ‘I heard Thy voice … and I was afraid.’ The words are Adam’s words, spoken after that first sin, which we are tol...
Genesis 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden ,.... The voice of thy Word, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan: this was not the true cause of his hiding himself; he had heard his voice in the gar...
Genesis 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself. Ver. 10. I heard thy voice. ] So he had done before his fall, and feared not. "Do not my wo...
Genesis 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I was afraid, because I was naked He confesses his nakedness, which was evident; but makes no mention of his sin. This he wished rather to hide, feeling, indeed, the shameful effects of it, but not...
Genesis 3:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE FALL OF MAN The serpent is introduced in this chapter as being more cunning than all other beasts. This was evidently so just by the fact of Satan's using the serpent for his mouthpiece. It is...
Genesis 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

9 And the L ORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. ...
Genesis 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He confesseth his nakedness, which was evident, but saith nothing of his sin; which, if possible, he would have hid: see Job 31:33 . And is grieved for the shameful effects of his sin, but not yet...
Genesis 3:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And he said, “I heard the sound of your presence in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.” ' How quickly the man gives himself away. The futile coverings that they had...
Genesis 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 3:8-12 THE SAD EFFECTS OF YIELDING TO TEMPTATION I. That yielding to temptation is generally followed by a sad consciousness of physical destitution...
Genesis 3:10 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 3 Consider: (1) some of the consequences, and (2) some of the corroborative proofs of the fall. I. Beside and behind the outward consequences, there were inward results far more terrible....
Genesis 3:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 3:1 . Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?...
Genesis 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 3:1 . The serpent. The rabbins and the christian doctors have largely sported their opinions here. St. Cyril contends that Satan assumed the figure of the serpent, and so talked with the w...
Genesis 3:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Where art thou? God’s question I. The speaker is God; the person spoken to is the representative of us all. II. The call is-- 1. Individual. 2. Universal. III. God calls in three wa...
Genesis 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God . Either (1) the noise of his footsteps (cf. Le Genesis 26:33 ; Numbers 16:34 ; 2 Samuel 5:24 ; Knobel, Delitzsch, Kei...
Genesis 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Investigation of God
Genesis 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

and I was. Genesis 2:25 Exodus 3:6 Job 23:15 Psalms 119:120 Isaiah 33:14 Isaiah 57:11 1 John 3:20 because. Genesis 3:7 Genesis 2:25 Exodus 32:25 Isaiah 47:3 Revelation 3:17 R...
Genesis 3:10 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Temptation Genesis 3:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are some very vital questions which naturally tome to most minds. These we will seek to answer. 1. Did God know that man would sin when...
Genesis 3:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I heard thy voice in the garden: and I was afraid — Adam was afraid because he was naked; not only unarmed, and therefore afraid to contend with God, but unclothed and therefore afraid so much as t...

Genesis 3:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 3:10 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 3:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 3:10 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 3:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 3:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 3:10 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Genesis 3:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes