Verse Genesis 4:17. _SHE - BARE ENOCH_] As חנוך _Chanoch_ signifies _instructed, dedicated_, or _initiated_, and especially in sacred things, it may be considered some proof of Cain's repentance, that...
- XIX. The Line of Cain 17. חניך _ch__e__nôk_, Chanok, “initiation, instruction.” 18. עירד _‛__ı̂yrād_, ‘Irad, “fleet as the wild ass, citizen.” מחוּיאל _m__e_
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 ...
Cainite and Sethite Genealogies. Genesis 4:17 probably belongs to the earliest stratum of J, in which the progress of civilisation is not interrupted by the Flood, and the human race is derived from A...
ENOCH. Teaching or Initiation. Cain's posterity (verses: Genesis 4:16) comes in "the Generations of the heavens and the earth" (see Structure, p. 5). See App-20. This seed was begotten after the slayi...
The Descendants of Cain: The Genealogy of the Cainites. (J.) See the Special Note on "the Antediluvian Patriarchs," see below. The traditions preserved in this section probably belong to a different...
_his wife_ On the question, Who was Cain's wife? see note at the beginning of the chapter. If the narrative be homogeneous, she must have been either a daughter of Eve, or of a family of whose contemp...
AND CAIN, &C.— It is evident from this verse, how brief the narration of Moses is, how he passes over time, and connects events of many years distance. For it is plain, that several years must have pa...
PART EIGHTEEN THE BEGINNINGS OF HUMAN CULTURE (Genesis 4:16-24) 1. _The Patriarchal Age_ The story of Cain and Abel introduces the Patriarchal form of government and worship. Family government is th...
_AND CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE; AND SHE CONCEIVED, AND BARE ENOCH: AND HE BUILDED A CITY, AND CALLED THE NAME OF THE CITY, AFTER THE NAME OF HIS SON, ENOCH._ And Cain knew his wife. Her name is traditionall...
BUILDED A CITY] The 'city' of course would be a collection of huts surrounded by a defensive palisade....
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...
Cain certainly had many other sons and daughters before he built the city. He built the city after he had lived in Nod for many years....
This Enoch is not the same person as the Enoch that Genesis 5:18-24 mentions. And this Lamech is not the same person as the Lamech that Genesis 5:25-31 mentions....
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’...
CAIN AND HIS DESCENDANTS. (17) CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE. — As Jehovah had told Eve that He would “greatly multiply her conception” (Genesis 3:16), we cannot doubt but that a numerous offspring had grown up...
וַ יֵּ֤דַע קַ֨יִן֙ אֶת ־אִשְׁתֹּ֔ו וַ תַּ֖הַר
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...
CAIN'S LINE, AND ENOCH Genesis 4:12 "MY punishment is greater than I can bear," so felt Cain as soon as his passion had spent itself and the consequences of his wickedness became apparent-and so feel...
CAIN'S CAREER Genesis 4:9 God's first question to the soul is, “Adam, where art thou?” The next, “Where is thy brother?” We _are_ our brother's keepers. All related to us, within our reach, or needin...
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...
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a (p) city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. (p) Thinking by this to be safe, and to have l...
His wife. She was a daughter of Adam, and Cain's own sister; God dispensing with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as mankind could not otherwise be propagated. --- He built a city, viz. I...
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...
17._And Cain knew his wife_. From the context we may gather that Cain, before he slew his brother, had married a wife; otherwise Moses would now have related something respecting his marriage; because...
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 CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE,.... Who this woman was is not certain, nor whether it was his first wife or not; whether his sister, or one that descended from Adam by another of his sons, since this was abou...
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Ver. 17. _And he builded a city._] So, many drown...
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 Cain knew his wife; and she conceived and bare Enoch. Since of one blood all nations of men are made to dwell on the earth, it was necessary, in the early days, for brothers and sisters to marry....
THE PASSOVER AND THE OFFERING WHICH FOLLOWED IT These are the feasts of the Lord, in the narrower sense, EVEN HOLY CONVOCATIONS, WHICH YE SHALL PROCLAIM IN THEIR SEASONS. This instruction was carried...
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...
ENOCH: _ Heb._ Chanoch...
16-18 Cain cast off all fear of God, and attended no more on God's ordinances. Hypocritical professors, who dissemble and trifle with God, are justly left to themselves to do something grossly scanda...
_ circ. 3875_ CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE; of which phrase SEE POOLE ON "GENESIS 4:1". HE BUILT A CITY; partly to divert his troubled mind with business and pleasure, and partly for his own security against th...
& 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 4:17 Cain H7014 knew H3045 (H8799) wife H802 conceived H2029 (H8799) bore H3205 (H8799) Enoch...
Genesis 4:17 . THE LINE OF CAIN. The following account was probably originally a second covenant record. It is built around the covenant recognised between Lamech and Yahweh, but in view of its refere...
BUILDED A CITY The first civilization, that which perished in the judgment of the Flood, was Cainitic in origin, character, and destiny. Every element of material civilization is mentioned in verses...
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...
_Built a city_ THE FIRST CITY It was a very decided step towards civilization, when the idea of building a city was first conceived and realized. The roaming life of the homeless savage was abandone...
_Cain went out from the presence of the Lord_ THE FUTURE OF A GOD-FORSAKEN LIFE I. THAT A GOD-FORSAKEN MAN IS NOT CUT OFF FROM THE MITIGATING INFLUENCES OF DOMESTIC LIFE. 1. Here the future of the...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 4:16_ THE FUTURE OF A GOD-FORSAKEN LIFE I. That a God-forsaken man is not cut off from the mitigating influences of domestic life. 1. _Here the future of...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 4:17 Domiciled in Nod, whither, impelled by woman's love, his wife had accompanied him, the unhappy fugitive began to seek, if not to find, relief from the gnawing agonies of remor...
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...
Enoch. Genesis 5:18 Genesis 5:22 and he. Genesis 11:4 Ecclesiastes 2:4...
And he builded a city — In token of a settled separation from the church of God. And here is an account of his posterity, at least the heirs of his family, for seven generations. His son was Enoch, of...
Where did Cain get his wife? PROBLEM: There were no women for Cain to marry. There was only Adam, Eve (Genesis 4:1), and his dead brother Abel (Genesis 4:8). Yet the Bible says Cain married and had c...