8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
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Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. …
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-8)Here we see what Eve’s parley with the tempter ended in. Satan, at length, gains his point, and the strong-hold is taken by his wiles. God tried the obedience of our first parents by forbidding them the tree of knowledge, and Satan does, as it were, join issue with God, and in that very thing undertakes to seduce them into a transgression; and here we find how he prevailed, God permitting it for w…
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