Gênesis 4:19, Gênesis 4:22 NVT

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Genesis 4:16-24

The Family of Cain v. 16. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. From over against the face of the Lord, from the place where the Lord revealed Himself to His people, Cain, with one of his sisters, who was his wife, journeyed toward the east of the land of Eden, where the garden of the Lord was situated. He cut himself off from all intercourse with the Lord and with His people. v. 17. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived and... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Genesis 4:1-26

SECOND SECTIONCain and Abel.—The Cainites.—The ungodly Worldliness of the First Civilization. Genesis 4:1-261And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare1 Cain [the gotten, or possession], and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord [from, or with the God of the future, or 2 Jehovah]. And again2 she bare his brother Abel [Habel, the perishable; הֶבֶל, vanishing breath of life]. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3And in process of time it came to... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 4:9-26

Cain’s Career Genesis 4:9-26 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 needing our help have a claim. We must not take advantage of them. Their well-being and our own are inseparable. God keeps an inventory of His saints, and will avenge them. Their blood will cry to God against those who have wronged them. There is only one cry in the world which is stronger-“the blood... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 4:1-26

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 had come which should bruise the head of the serpent. How little she knew of the nature of her own sin. Thus from the beginning sin manifested a wayward rebelliousness which ever tends to break the heart of fatherhood and motherhood; and experimentally some of the consciousness of the pain of God... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:19-24

AN EARLY CHAUVINIST‘And Lamech took unto him two wives,’ etc. Genesis 4:19-Jeremiah : Here we have I. A violator of the Divine law of marriage.—Monogamy was the Divine law of marriage, and in all likelihood this rule had been observed till Lamech’s time. The general opinion is, that Lamech was the first to disobey this law by taking ‘two wives.’ The fact would scarcely have been recorded, had it not been intended to note a new departure from the established order of things. ‘This was his... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:19

‘And Lamech took two wives, the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah.’ Here we have the first suggestion of someone having more than one wife. It may have been a boast to Lamech, but the compiler of the Genesis 1-11 epic probably saw it as another downward step in man’s continuing fall. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:17-26

Genesis 4:17-Ezekiel : . Cainite and Sethite Genealogies. Genesis 4:17-Jeremiah : 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 Adam through Cain. When the story of the Deluge was added and the race of Cain was believed to have been exterminated in the Flood, a Sethite genealogy was required. Only a fragment ( Genesis 4:25 f) of this is given from J, the redactor having omitted the rest... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:19

Lamech, the wicked branch of that cursed root of Cain, took unto him two wives, against God’s first institution, Genesis 2:24; Malachi 2:15, and without God’s leave. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 4:19-26

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 4:23. Adah and Zillah.] Probably the oldest fragment of poetry extant. With a slight freedom of translation, we may perhaps thus approach the metrical cast of the original:—“Adah and Zillah! hear ye my voice,Ye wives of Lamech! give ear to my tale:A MAN have I slain in dealing my wounds,Yea, a YOUTH in striking my blows:Since SEVENFOLD is to be the avenging of Cain,Then, OF LAMECH, seventy and seven!”MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 4:19-26LAMECHGenesis 4:23-24.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:1-26

Genesis 4:0 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 sometimes to extreme love for them; it may also arise on the part of parents from an overweening estimate of themselves. II. We see next in the history of Cain what a fearful sin that of murder is. The real evil of murder (apart from its theftuous character) lies in the principles and feelings from... read more