Genesis 2:5

Holman Christian Standard Bible

No shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

Cross References

Genesis 2:6

But water would come out of the ground and water the entire surface of the land.

Genesis 3:23

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

Genesis 4:12

If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:2

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

Job 5:10

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

Psalm 104:14

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

Psalm 135:7

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.

Jeremiah 10:12

He made the earth by His power, established the world by His wisdom, and spread out the heavens by His understanding.

Jeremiah 10:13

When He thunders, the waters in the heavens are in turmoil, and 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.

Jeremiah 14:22

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.

Matthew 5:45

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.

Hebrews 6:7

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.