Genesis 2:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And 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.

Plant

Genesis 1:12

Psalm 104:14

Had not

Hebrews 6:7

To till

Genesis 3:23

Genesis 4:2

Bible References

Plant

The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,

And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth,

Had not

“He gives rain on the earth
And sends water on the fields,

To bring rain on a land without people,
On a desert without a man in it,

You visit the earth and cause it to overflow;
You greatly enrich it;
The

stream of God is full of water;

You prepare their grain, for thus You prepare the earth.

He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;

Who makes lightnings for the rain,
Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries.

Are there any among the

idols of the nations who give rain?

Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we

hope in You,

For You are the one who has done all these things.

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;

To till

therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.