Genesis 4:4-Ruth

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

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 4:3-6

Genesis THE GROWTH AND POWER OF SIN Gen_4:3 - Gen_4:16 . Many lessons crowd on us from this section. Its general purport is to show the growth of sin, and its power to part man from man even as it has parted man from God. We may call the whole ‘The beginning of the fatal operations of sin on human society.’ 1. The first recorded act of worship occasions the first murder. Is not that only too correct a forecast of the oceans of blood which have been shed in the name of religion, and a... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 4:1-8

Offerings by Cain and Abel Genesis 3:22-24 ; Genesis 4:1-8 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 Eden of innocence, of home, of the land of his birth, to create gardens out of deserts, and to become a pilgrim to the abiding City of God. Angels of Love forbid our return. Heaven lies before us, the City gleams with light on the far horizon. For the Tree of Life see Revelation 2:7 .... 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

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 4:1-16

Seeing Christ in Cain and Abel Genesis 4:1-16 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 to propagate their race. Every human being upon the earth came forth from the first created pair. 2. Cain and Abel received from their parents a sinful nature. The one was not good and the other bad. They were both alike evil. A bitter fountain cannot give forth sweet water, and both were sons... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:4-5

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-Deuteronomy : 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 exactly consistent with what we ourselves see of man, the other so exactly consistent with what we ourselves should expect in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:1-16

The Story of Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1 to Genesis 5:1 a). Genesis 4:1-16 . The Sin of Cain TABLET III It is quite clear that this section once existed separately from Genesis 2-3. The immediate and lasting change from ‘Yahweh Elohim’ (Lord God) to ‘Yahweh’ (Lord), after the almost pedantic use of the former in the previous narrative, suggests this, as does the rather abrupt way in which the connection is made between the two accounts. The account is in covenant form being built around two... read more

Peter Pett

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

‘And Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions.’ We are not to read into this any cultic requirements. The cult is not established until Genesis 4:26. It is specifically intended to bring out Abel’s attitude of heart. His first thought was to show his gratitude to God, and thus he gave of his best. He gave of the firstlings of the flock, in other words he thought of God first, and he especially selected the best portions. This is in contrast with the abrupt way in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:4-5

‘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. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:1-16

Genesis 4:1-Nehemiah : . 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 vengeance, and the curse in Genesis 4:11 f. ignores the cursing of the ground in Genesis 3:17-Psalms :. Originally then the story was placed in a later period of human history: its present position is perhaps due to the identification of Cain the murderer with Cain the... read more

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

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 4:3-6

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 4:1-8

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

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 4:1-16

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 4:4-5

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:1-16

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:4-5

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:1-16

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