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Scott's Reference Library
October 5, 2003 | October 8, 2006 | October 4, 2009
Genesis 2:18 through Genesis 2:24 (NIV)
18The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a
helper suitable for him.”
19Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and
all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name
them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20So
the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts
of the field.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21So the LORD God caused the man to
fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s
ribs and closed up the place with flesh. 22Then the LORD God made a woman from
the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his
wife, and they will become one flesh.
See also Mark 10:2-16
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 18-25
Power over the creatures was given to man, and as a proof of this he named them
all. It also shows his insight into the works of God. But though he was lord of
the creatures, yet nothing in this world was a help meet for man. From God are
all our helpers. If we rest in God, he will work all for good. God caused deep
sleep to fall on Adam; while he knows no sin, God will take care that he shall
feel no pain. God, as her Father, brought the woman to the man, as his second
self, and a help meet for him. That wife, who is of God’s making by special
grace, and of God’s bringing by special providence, is likely to prove a help
meet for a man. See what need there is, both of prudence and prayer in the
choice of this relation, which is so near and so lasting. That had need to be
well done, which is to be done for life. Our first parents needed no clothes for
covering against cold or heat, for neither could hurt them: they needed none for
ornament. Thus easy, thus happy, was man in his state of innocency. How good was
God to him! How many favours did he load him with! How easy were the laws given
to him! Yet man, being in honour, understood not his own interest, but soon
became as the beasts that perish.