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 produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,

Had not

He gives rain to the earth
and sends water to the fields.

to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
on a desert with no human life,

You visit the earth and water it abundantly,
enriching it greatly.
God’s stream is filled with water,
for You prepare the earth in this way,
providing people with grain.

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?
Or can the skies alone give showers?
Are You not the Lord our God?
We therefore put our hope in You,
for You have done all these things.

so that you may be sons of your Father 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 has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.

To till

So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.