‘And Yahweh had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard.'
But how did they know that one was accepted and the other not? The answer would seem to lie in the fact that Abel prospered, whereas Cain was having a difficult time in some way. This would certainly explain why Cain was so angry. In the Old Testament prosperity is regularly seen as a sign of the approval of God.
Verse Genesis 4:4. _ABEL, HE ALSO BROUGHT OF THE FIRSTLINGS OF HIS FLOCK_] Dr. Kennicott contends that the words _he also brought_, הביא גם הוא hebi gam hu, should be translated, Abel _brought_ IT _a...
- Section IV - The Family of Adam - Cain and Abel 1. קין _qayı̂n_, Qain (Cain), “spear-shaft,” and קנה _qānah_, “set up, establish, gain, buy,” contain the biliteral root קן _qan_, “set up, erect, g...
CHAPTER 4 After the Fall and the Two Seeds _ 1. Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1)_ 2. Their offerings (Genesis 4:3) 3. The divine remonstrance (Genesis 4:6) 4. Abel slain by his brother ...
The Story of Cain and Abel. This belongs to the J cycle of stories, but apparently not to the same stratum as Genesis 4:3, for it is assumed that the earth has a population from which Cain fears venge...
ABEL.. BROUGHT OF THE FIRSTLINGS OF HIS FLOCK. Abel likewise brings the products of his own labor, but brings. sin offering, and "the fat thereof" to be burned upon the altar, as afterwards directed i...
BROUGHT: "by faith", Hebrews 11:4, which came by hearing the word of God (Romans 10:17). FIRSTLINGS... AND THE FAT. &C. Figure of speech _Hendiadys,_ App-6. "the firstlings, and the fattest ones too....
_the firstlings_ i.e. "the firstborn," regarded as the best and choicest, cf. Exodus 34:19; Numbers 18:17; Proverbs 3:9. _the fat_ i.e. the fatty portions, which were regarded as choicest for the purp...
ABEL, OF THE FIRSTLINGS OF HIS FLOCK, AND OF THE FAT, &C.— Cain's offering was suitable to his profession, and Abel's was equally so to his: there does not appear to me any reason of preference on thi...
PART SEVENTEEN THE BEGINNING OF TRUE RELIGION (Genesis 4:1-15) 1. _Preliminary Definitions_ It is doubtful that there is a more ambiguous word in our language today than the word religion. It has li...
_AND ABEL, HE ALSO BROUGHT OF THE FIRSTLINGS OF HIS FLOCK AND OF THE FAT THEREOF. AND THE LORD HAD RESPECT UNTO ABEL AND TO HIS OFFERING:_ And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and...
CAIN AND ABEL. THE DESCENDANTS OF CAIN The narrative, which forms part of the Primitive document, impressively shows how sin, having once appeared, became hereditary in the human race, and speedily de...
AND THE LORD HAD RESPECT, etc.] The characters of the brothers rather than their offerings are kept chiefly in view. Many, passages show that the decisive reason why a worshipper is accepted or reject...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 4 CAIN KILLS ABEL V1 Adam had sex with his wife Eve and she became *pregnant. Her son Cain was born. She said, ‘I have gained a man by the *Lord’...
IN PROCESS OF TIME. — Heb., _at the end of days:_ not at the end of a week, or a year, or of harvest-time, but of a long indefinite period, shown by the age of Adam at the birth of Seth to have been s...
וְ הֶ֨בֶל הֵבִ֥יא גַם ־ה֛וּא מִ בְּכֹרֹ֥ות
CAIN AND ABEL Genesis 4:1 IT is not the purpose of this narrator to write the history of the world. It is not his purpose to write even the history of mankind. His object is to write the history of r...
OFFERINGS BY CAIN AND ABEL Genesis 3:22; Genesis 4:1 It was good that man should be driven from Eden. Soft comfort enervates. The natives of the South Sea Islands are moral pulp. Man goes forth from...
The degeneration of the first man and woman was transmitted, the firstborn being manifestly an inheritor of the fallen nature of his parents. His mother named him Cain, intimating a hope that the seed...
Even though Adam and Eve had sinned and been driven out of the garden, there were moments of joy. Eve conceived and bore Cain. She said, "I have gotten a man from the Lord" (Genesis 4:1). Her statemen...
Had respect. That is, shewed his acceptance of his sacrifice (as coming from a heart full of devotion): and that we may suppose, by some visible token, such as sending fire from heaven upon his offeri...
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: Proverbs 15:8; Psalms 11:7. See, also, particularly, Hebrews 11...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
_THE DISREGARDED AND THE ACCEPTED OFFERING_ ‘And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect.’ Genesis 4:4 There are two things which di...
4._And the Lord had respect unto Abel, etc_. God is said to have respect unto the man to whom he vouchsafes his favor. We must, however, notice the order here observed by Moses; for he does not simply...
But grace could work. The grace of a God above the evil of man, and Abel approaches Him by faith. Hereon follows the separation of the families of God and of the enemy, of the world and of faith. Abel...
AND ABEL, HE ALSO BROUGHT OF THE FIRSTLINGS OF HIS FLOCK,.... As he was a shepherd, his flock consisted of sheep; and of the firstlings of these, the lambs that were first brought forth, he presented...
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: Ver. 4. _Of the firstlings of his flock._] He brought the best...
Gen. 4:3, 4. _Cain's and Abel's sacrifice. _ Abel when he comes before God is sensible of his own unworthiness and sinfulness, like the publican, and so is sensible of his need of an atonement, and th...
_And the Lord God had respect to Abel and to his offering_ And showed his acceptance of it, probably by fire from heaven; but to _Cain and his offering he had not respect._ We are sure there was a goo...
1 The birth, trade, and religion of Cain and Abel. 8 The murder of Abel. 9 The curse of Cain. 17 Enoch the first citie. 19 Lamech and his two wiues. 25 The birth of Seth, 26 and Enos. 1 AND Ada...
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. In the very mention of the gift there is an indication of the difference in the attitude of the hearts; for whereas it...
The Offerings of Cain and Abel...
SECOND SECTION _Cain and Abel. The Cainites. The ungodly Worldliness of the First Civilization._ GENESIS 4:1-26 1And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare Cain [the gotten, or possessi...
CAIN AND ABEL Adam and Eve, having acquired a sinful nature, could only communicate the same nature to their children. Their firstborn was named Cain, which means "smith" or "fabricator," one who plan...
FLOCK: _ Heb._ sheep, or, goats...
1-7 When Cain was born, Eve said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. Perhaps she thought that this was the promised seed. If so, she was wofully disappointed. Abel signifies vanity: when she thought...
THE FIRSTLINGS; either, 1. The first-born, which God reserved to himself, both at this time, and afterwards by an express law, EXODUS 13:2 NUMBERS 3:13. Or, 2. The choicest and most eminent of the fl...
& Genesis 5:1-32 As each section of the Book of Genesis opens before us, we are furnished with fresh evidence of the fact that we are travelling over, what a recent writer has well termed, "the seed-...
Genesis 4:4 Abel H1893 also H1931 brought H935 (H8689) firstborn H1062 flock H6629 fat H2459 LORD H3068 respected...
ABEL Abel ("exhalation," or, "that which ascends") is a type of the spiritual man. His sacrifice, in which atoning blood was shed (Hebrews 9:22) was therefore at once his confession of sin and the ex...
Genesis 4:3 Hebrews 11:4 We learn from our text: I. That religion actuated men in the very earliest times. (1) Religion as a principle was found in the members of the first human family. The most pr...
Genesis 4:4 There are two things which distinguish the Bible from every other book: the view it gives us of man, and the view it gives us of God. The one is so human, the other so Divine; the one so e...
Genesis 4:3 I. The first question to be asked is this: What did Cain and Abel know about sacrifice? Although we should certainly have expected Moses to inform us plainly if there had been a direct ord...
Genesis 4 I. From the story of Cain we gather the following thoughts: I. Eve's disappointment at the birth of Cain should be a warning to all mothers. Over-estimate of children may be traced somet...
CONTENTS: First sons of Adam, Cain and Abel. Murder of Abel. First civilization. Birth of Seth. CHARACTERS: Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth. CONCLUSION: Attainment can never take the place of Atonement....
Genesis 4:1. _I have gotten._ קניתי _kaniti,_ from the root _kana,_ he possessed. The LXX have betrayed their ignorance of the Eternal Word, or Wisdom, by frequently rendering this word _created._ God...
_The Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering; but unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect_ THE TWO OFFERINGS I. THE CAUSE OF CAIN’S REJECTION. His total want of the true spirit of fa...
_Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground_ THE STORY OF CAIN AND ABEL I. RELIGION ACTUATED MEN IN THE VERY EARLIEST TIMES. II. THE MERE NATURAL RELIGION IS ESSENTIALLY DEFECT...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 4:2 The fact that God HAD REGARD FOR ABEL AND HIS OFFERING, but not for Cain, does not mean that shepherds are better than farmers or that animal offerings are better than plan...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 4:7. Sin lieth at the door.] Rather: “A sin-offering is crouching at the door, or (more generally) opening”: _e.g._ “at the opening, or entrance, of thy brother’s fold.” This...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 4:1 Exiled from Eden, o'er, canopied by grace, animated by hope, assured of the Divine forgiveness, and filled with a sweet peace, the first pair enter on their life experience of...
Lets turn to Genesis Chapter four. Adam and Eve have been expelled from the Garden of Eden because of their disobedience to God. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said...
the firstlings. Exodus 13:12 Numbers 18:12 Numbers 18:17 Proverbs 3:9 Heb
SEEING CHRIST IN CAIN AND ABEL Genesis 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Cain and Abel came by natural generation. The only human beings God ever created were Adam and Eve. They were created with the power...
CAIN AND ABEL Genesis 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It falls to our lot to connect the links between our last study and today's. 1. WE HAVE ADAM NAMING HIS WIFE, "EVE." Here is the Scripture: "And Adam ca...
And the Lord God had respect to Abel and to his offering, and shewed his acceptance of it, probably by fire from heaven but to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. We are sure there was a good...