Genesis 4:9-10

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

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:9

Where is Abel? Not that God was ignorant where he was, but partly to convince him of his sin, and to lead him to repentance, and partly to instruct judges to inquire into causes, and hear the accused speak for themselves, before they pass sentence. Thy brother, whom nature and near relation obliged thee to love and preserve. Am I my brother’s keeper? Why dost thou inquire of me concerning him who is of age to look to himself? Is he such a stripling that he needs a guardian? Or didst thou ever... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:10

I hear thy words, but what say thy actions? What a hideous crime hast thou committed! In vain dost thou endeavour to hide it or deny it. In the Hebrew it is bloods, either to aggravate the crime, or to show the plenty of the blood split, or to charge him with the murder of all those that might naturally have come out of Abel’s loins; which was a far greater crime in the nonage of the world, when the world greatly wanted people. From the ground, upon which it was spilt by thy bloody hands. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 4:9-16

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 4:9-16THE BITTER CURSE WHICH SIN BRINGS UPON AN INDIVIDUAL LIFEWe have been thoroughly educated in the nature and effects of sin by the sacred narrative, not by philosophical instruction, but by the interesting events and transactions of daily life. We saw in the garden that sin consisted in a wandering thought from the word of God, and also in disobedience to the divine command; now we behold it in full development, as a dire passion, and as a social... 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

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:8-13

Genesis 4:8-13 Sin finds in the very constitution of the human mind the enginery of its own retribution. I. The very consciousness of sin is destructive of a sinner's peace. II. Sin tends to develop sin. III. The consciousness of guilt is always more or less painfully attended with the apprehension of its discovery. IV. A foreboding of judicial and eternal retribution is incident to sin. V. From all this we see the preciousness of the work of Christ. He becomes a reality to us, only because He... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:9

Genesis 4:9 The feeling of our sonship to God in Christ is a topic which requires to be constantly dwelt upon, because our conventional acceptance of such a relationship is apt to be compatible with a life which has no real apprehension of it. I. Of the dangers which are partly rooted in our animal nature and partly fostered and intensified by the drift of our time, the one likely to press most heavily on us is that of exaggerated individualism. Where this is not tempered by an infusion of the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 4:8-10

DISCOURSE: 9THE DEATH OF ABELGenesis 4:8-10. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? And He said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.IT is scarcely to be conceived how much iniquity there is in the heart of fallen man. That we have... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Genesis 4:9

Am I My Brother’s Keeper? by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) “Am I my brother’s keeper?”--Genesis 4:9 Cain displayed a shameful tone of presumptuous impudence in his insulting reply to the Lord God. If it had not been on record in the page of inspiration, we might almost have doubted whether a man could speak so impudently when actually conscious that God himself was addressing him. Men blaspheme often in a most terrible fashion, but it is usually because they forget God, and ignore his presence;... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 4:1-26

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, I have gotten a man from the Lord ( Genesis 4:1 ).Now there are always people who are ready to make up theories concerning how certain things happened or what certain things were. But let me say wherever the Bible is silent it is best that we be silent. I'm not really interested in conjecturing on... read more

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