Genesis 2:5

New International Version

Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,

Cross References

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Hebrews 6:7

Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.

Job 5:10

He provides rain for the earth; he sends water on the countryside.

Genesis 4:12

When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:2

Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

Jeremiah 14:22

Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.

Psalm 135:7

He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Psalm 104:14

He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate— bringing forth food from the earth:

Matthew 5:45

that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Genesis 2:6

but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Jeremiah 10:12

But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

Jeremiah 10:13

When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.