Genesis 5:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. ”

Genesis 5:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Section V - The Line to Noah - The Line of Sheth 1. ספר s e pher “writing, a writing, a book.” 9. קינן qēynān , Qenan, “possessor, or spearsman.” 12. < מהללאל mah...
Genesis 5:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name (b) Adam, in the day when they were created. (b) By giving them both one name, he notes the inseparable conjunction of man an...
Genesis 5:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Sethite Genealogy of Antediluvians. With the exception of Genesis 5:29 this comes from P, as is clear from the style, each statement being cast in the same mould, and the whole forming a mere catal...
Genesis 5:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

them, i.e. Adam and Eve, going back to Genesis 1:27 ; Genesis 2:7 .
Genesis 5:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. Male and female created he them. This clause commends the sacred bond of marriage, and the inseparable union of the husband and the wife. For when Moses has mentioned only one, he immediat...
Genesis 5:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 5:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Called their name Adam— i.e.. Man. "He called both male and female man," s ays Mr. Locke, "the common name of both sexes: so homo is used in the Latin."
Genesis 5:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Male and female created he them. The Hebrew word 'aadaam ( H120 ), like...
Genesis 5:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Descendants of Adam to Noah The purpose of the historian in giving the names and ages of the antediluvian Patriarchs was, no doubt, to show the glorious ancestry of the chosen race, and to acc...
Genesis 5:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1-32 ; Genesis 6:1-22 ; Genesis 7:1-24 ; Genesis 8:1-22 ; Genesis 9:1-29 THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was t...
Genesis 5:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Posterity of Adam Genesis 5:1-24 In contrast to Cain's line in the previous chapter, we have Seth's in this. Note the curious similarity in the names, as though the Cainites professed all that...
Genesis 5:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this chapter we have a condensed account of fifteen centuries in human history. The ruin of the race had come through man's belief in the devil's lie. "Ye shall not surely die." The repetition thr...
Genesis 5:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: I beg the reader to remark the particularity of expression, in this verse;...
Genesis 5:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Male and female created he them ,.... Adam and Eve, the one a male, the other a female; and but one male and one female, to show that one man and one woman only were to be joined together in marriag...
Genesis 5:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Ver. 2. Male and female created he them. ] The Jews at this day have base conceits...
Genesis 5:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He called their name Adam He gave this name both to the man and the woman. Being at first one by nature, and afterward one by marriage, it was fit they should both have the same name in token of th...
Genesis 5:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE FAMILY OF ADAM - THROUGH SETH This chapter is called "the book of the genealogy of Adam" (v.1). However, the line of Cain is omitted and only the line of Seth included. The reason for this is in...
Genesis 5:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genealogies. B. C. 3852. 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that G...
Genesis 5:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Genesis 1:26 Matthew 19:4 Mark 10:6 . He blessed them with power to propagate their kind, and with other blessings. See Genesis 1:28 . Called their name Adam; which name is given bo...
Genesis 5:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The History of and Genealogy of Noah ( Genesis 5:1 a - Genesis 6:9 ) (TABLET III) This section commences with a list of ten patriarchs from Adam to Noah, and is followed by a passage where God m...
Genesis 5:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Notwithstanding the measure of difficulty standing in the way of ascertaining the meaning of the proper names of Scripture, the subject cannot be wisely neglected: what we do know i...
Genesis 5:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 5:2 I. No sooner was Adam made, than it was at once resolved that he should not be alone; and God proceeded to create Eve. So even in heaven Christ's happiness was not complete without His...
Genesis 5:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 5:1 . The book of generations; the princely line of holy patriarchs, from whom the Messiah descended. Genesis 5:4 . And begat sons and daughters; but not being primogenitors of the pro...
Genesis 5:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

This is the book of the generations of Adam Distinguished men I. SOME MEN ARE RENDERED DISTINGUISHED BY THE PECULIARITY OF THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVE. Adam; the first human being to (1) in...
Genesis 5:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

§ 3. THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM ( CH . 5:1-6:8) EXPOSITION The present section carries forward the inspired narrative another stage, in which the onward progress or development of the human...
Genesis 5:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

From Adam to Seth
Genesis 5:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Male. Genesis 1:27 Malachi 2:15 their. Genesis 2:15 Genesis 2:23 Acts 17:26
Genesis 5:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Where we have a brief rehearsal of what was before at large related concerning the creation of man. This is what we have need frequently to hear of, and carefully to acquaint ourselves with. Observ...

Genesis 5:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 5:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 5:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 5:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 5:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 5:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 5:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 5:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 5:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 5:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 5:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 5:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 5:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 5:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 5:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 5:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes