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Genesis 2:4 KJV
Genesis · chapter 2 · verse 4
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,Genesis 2:4 · King James Version
Genesis 2:4 in context
2And 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 made.
3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- generationstôwlᵉdâhdescentH8435 →
- heavensshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- createdbârâʼto createH1254 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- madeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
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In these verses, I. Here is a name given to the Creator which we have not yet met with, and that is Jehovah - the LORD, in capital letters, which are constantly used in our English translation to intimate that in the original it is Jehovah. All along, in the first chapter, he was called Elohim - a God of power;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-7