Gênesis 4:16-26 NVIPT

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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:20

‘Adah bore Jabal, he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have domesticated animals.’ This is looking from the Cainite point of view. It may suggest that he invented the tent as opposed to more primitive shelters, but more probably that under him domestication of animals by the nomads of the line of Cain now began for the first time. Possibly, in view of Cain’s actions, the domestication of animals had been taboo, but now at last they feel it is time the result of the curse was over. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:21

‘His brother’s name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.’ The wandering life of the family would encourage the need for diversions. Perhaps he invented these musical instruments, or perhaps he was the first one to introduce them to the tribe. Either way he was remembered for it. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:22

‘Zillah bore Tubal-Cain, he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.’ Tubal-Cain was the one who shaped metals. Mitchell (NBD) suggests that perhaps ‘he discovered the possibilities of cold forging native copper and meteoric iron, a practise attested archaeologically from prehistoric times’. We do not know what Naamah (meaning ‘pleasant’) did but she must have been very outstanding or notoriously beautiful to be named at all. Notice that three... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:23-24

‘And Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, you wives of Lamech listen to what I say, I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me, if Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and seven fold”.’ Lamech has killed a young man and claims that it was in self-defence. But he fears vengeance from the young man’s family. Now he is claiming the protection of God. God had promised to avenge Cain, who did not act in self-defence, sevenfold. In fairness He... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:25

Genesis 4:25 to Genesis 5:1 a The Birth of Seth This section may have been written (from source material) specifically to connect the Cainite records with the following record of Seth’s genealogy, and also to interconnect the Cainite records with Genesis 2:0 and Genesis 3:0. This probably occurred at the stage when all these records were incorporated on a tablet as ‘the book of the histories of Adam’. Genesis 4:25 ‘And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:26

‘And Seth, to him was born a son and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call on the name of Yahweh.’ Enosh is another word for ‘man’. It stresses the frailty of man. The phrase ‘call on the name of Yahweh’ does not mean that men have not acknowledged Yahweh before, but that the worship of Yahweh was now regularised (compare Genesis 12:8; Genesis 13:4; Genesis 21:33; Genesis 26:25). Some kind of systematic worship was introduced. Thus from the beginning the systematic worship of... 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

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 4:16

i.e. He was banished from the place of God’s special presence and habitation, from the society of his father, and of the only church which God had upon earth; and dwelt in the land of Nod, in the land which was afterwards called Nod, from Cain’s unsettled condition, because he continued wandering hither and thither in it. read more

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:22

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:23-24

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 4:26

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

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:16

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