Gênesis 4:19, Gênesis 4:22 NVT

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:1-26

CAIN AND ABELGenesis 4:1-26IT 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 redemption. Starting from the broad fact of man’s alienation from God, he means to trace that element in human history which results in the perfect re-union of God and man. The keynote has been struck in the promise already given that the seed of the woman should prevail over the seed of the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:12-24

CAIN’S LINE, AND ENOCHGenesis 4:12-24"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 feels every one who finds he has now to live in the presence of the irrevocable deed he has done. It seems too heavy a penalty to endure for the one hour of passion; and yet as little as Cain could rouse the dead Abel so little can we revive the past we have destroyed. Thoughtlessness has set in motion... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Genesis 4:1-26

CHAPTER 4 After the Fall and the Two Seeds 1. Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1-2 ) 2. Their offerings (Genesis 4:3-5 ) 3. The divine remonstrance (Genesis 4:6-7 ) 4. Abel slain by his brother (Genesis 4:8 ) 5. Cain’s judgment (Genesis 4:9-16 ) 6. Cain and his offspring and the progress of the world (Genesis 4:17-24 ) 7. Seth in place of Abel (Genesis 4:25-26 ) This chapter is filled with many lessons. Here are types of the Seed of the Woman, Christ. Christ as the Good Shepherd, the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Genesis 4:19

4:19 And Lamech took unto him {q} two wives: the name of the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.(q) The lawful institution of marriage, which is, that two should be one flesh, was first corrupted in the house of Cain by Lamech. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:1-26

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 plans and fashions things in a pleasing way. Their second child's name, Abel, means "transitory". Their names indicate something of what their history proved. Cain depended on his own ability, while Abel depended on the Lord, having his earthly life only transitory, though still speaking after his... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:1-26

THE STREAM OF HUMANITY DIVIDED TWO KINDS OF WORSHIPPERS (Genesis 4:1-8 ) What were the occupations of these brothers? What does the name of God in (Genesis 4:3 bring to mind from our second lesson? We are not told how God showed respect for Abel’s offering and disrespect for Cain’s, but possibly, as on later occasions, fire may have come out from before the Lord (i.e., in this case from between the cherubim) to consume the one in token of its acceptance. A more important question is why... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Genesis 4:13-26

Cain's Punishment Gen 4:13 My object is to show, so far as I may be able, some of the necessary consequences of sin, and to point out how those consequences prove the terribleness of wrong-doing. Sometimes we know a thing better by its consequences than by its essence. I think this is particularly the case with sin. It may require great intellectual power to see sin as sin, but the consequences of sin show themselves in glaring and appalling clearness to the dullest eyes. If, then, any man... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:19

Two wives. Lamech first transgressed the law of having only one wife at a time. (chap. ii. 24.) None before the deluge is mentioned as having followed his example, even among the abandoned sons of men. Abraham, the father of the faithful, and some others, after that event, when the age of man was shortened, and the number of the true servants of God very small, were dispensed with by God, who tolerated the custom of having many wives at the same time among the Jews, till our Saviour brought... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:19-24

19-24 One of Cain's wicked race is the first recorded, as having broken the law of marriage. Hitherto, one man had but one wife at a time; but Lamech took two. Wordly things, are the only things that carnal, wicked people set their hearts upon, and are most clever and industrious about. So it was with this race of Cain. Here was a father of shepherds, and a father of musicians, but not a father of the faithful. Here is one to teach about brass and iron, but none to teach the good knowledge of... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Genesis 4:1-26

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