Genesis 4:25 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 4:25-26

I. God gave them to see the re-building of their family, which was sorely shaken and weakened by that sad event. For, 1. They saw their seed, another seed instead of Abel, Gen. 4:25. Observe God's kindness and tenderness towards his people, in his providential dealings with them; when he takes away one comfort from them, he gives them another instead of it, which may prove a greater blessing to them than that was in which they thought their lives were bound up. This other seed was he in whom... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:25

And Adam knew his wife again ,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds, at the end of a hundred and thirty years after Abel was killed, see Genesis 5:3 but, according to Bishop Usher, Seth was born the same year, which is most probable. And she bare a son, and called his name Seth , that is, "put, placed, set"; not with any respect to Cain, who had no settled fixed abode, but wandered about; or to Seth as a foundation of the church and true religion, being a type of Christ the only foundation,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:25

God - hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel - Eve must have received on this occasion some Divine communication, else how could she have known that this son was appointed in the place of Abel, to continue that holy line by which the Messiah was to come? From this we see that the line of the Messiah was determined from the beginning, and that it was not first fixed in the days of Abraham; for the promise was then only renewed, and that branch of his family designated by which the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:25

Verse 25 25.Adam knew his wife again. Some hence infer that our first parents were entirely deprived of their offspring when one of their sons had been slain, and the other was cast far away into banishment. But it is utterly incredible that, when the benediction of God in the propagation of mankind was in its greatest force, Adam and Eve should have been through so many years unfruitful. But rather before Abel was slain, the continual succession of progeny had already rendered the house of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:17-26

The progress of the race. I. ITS INCREASE IN POPULATION . Starting from a single pair in Eden, in the course of seven generations the human family must have attained to very considerable dimensions. At the birth of Seth, Adam was 130 years old, and in all probability had other sons and daughters- besides Cain and his wife. If Lamech, the seventh from Adam in the line of Cain, was contemporaneous with Enoch, the seventh from Adam in the line of Seth, at least 600 years had passed away... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:25-26

The narrative now reverts to the fortunes of the doubly saddened pair. And Adam knew his wife again. Having mournfully abstained for a season a thro conjugali (Calvin); not necessarily implying that Adam and Eve had not other children who had grown to man's estate prior to the death of Abel (cf. Genesis 5:4 ). And she bare a son, and called his name Seth . Sheth , from shith , to put or place; hence appointed, put, compensation. For God , said she, hath appointed me another... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:25-26

Revelation in history. The reappearance of the redeeming purpose. The consecrated family of Adam. The Divinely blessed line of descent preserved leading onward to the fulfillment of the first promise. " Then begat , men to call upon the name of Jehovah ." I. THE COMMENCEMENT OF REGULAR WORSHIP , possibly of distinct Church life. 1. The name of the Lord is the true center of fellowship—including revelation , redemption , promise . 2. The pressure of outward... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 4:25-26

- XX. Sheth25. שׁת shēt, Sheth, “placed, put.”26. אנישׁ 'enôsh, Enosh, “man, sickly.” בשׁם קרא qero' beshēm means, first, to call an object by its name Isaiah 40:26; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 45:3-4; second, to call an object by the name of another, who is the parent, leader, husband, owner Numbers 32:42; Judges 18:29; Psalms 49:12; Isaiah 43:7; Isaiah 44:5; Isaiah 48:1; Isaiah 65:1; third, to proclaim the name of Exodus 33:19; Exodus 35:5-6; fourth, to call upon the name of God, to address him by... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 4:25

Genesis 4:25. In this verse we find the first mention of Adam in the story of this chapter. No question, the murder of Abel, and the impenitency and apostacy of Cain, were a very great grief to him and Eve and the more because their own wickedness did now correct them, and their backsliding did reprove them. Their folly had given sin and death entrance into the world; and now they smarted by it, being, by means thereof, deprived of both their sons in one day, Genesis 27:45. When parents... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:17-26

Cain’s followers and Seth’s (4:17-26)Difficult though this new way of life was, the ungodly Cain was no doubt relieved to be free from the influence of God. The human population had been growing constantly, so in a plan to make himself secure Cain established his own independent settlement (17-18).The beginnings of settled life were marked by both good and evil. People made some progress in the raising of sheep and cattle, and developed skills in various arts and crafts, but morally they became... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 4:25-26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:17-26

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:25-26

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:25-26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 4:25-26

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 4:25

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:17-26

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