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
Genesis-4:16-26
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:20
He taught shepherds to dwell in tents, and to remove them from place to place, for conveniency of pasture. The first authors or inventors of any thing are commonly called its fathers. And he was the inventor of the art of keeping and managing cattle. read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:21
Or, the lovely instrument; but what kind of instrument this was, even the Jews do not understand. The meaning is, he was the inventor of music and musical instruments. read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:22
Tubal-cain, whom (as the learned conceive, and the agreement of the name and function makes probable) the heathens worshipped by the name of Vulcan, the god of smiths; and his sister Naamah, by the name of Venus. He first taught men how to make arms, and other instruments of iron. Naamah; so called from her beauty, which her name signifies. read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:23
Adah and Zillah, observing his fierceness and cruelty, feared that the vengeance of God or men would fall upon him, and upon them for his sake. Be it so that I have slain a man, and that a young man, why do you concern yourselves in it? It is to my own wounding and hurt, not to yours; I must suffer for it, not you. Some take this to be a sorrowful confession of his bloody crime: q.d. I have murdered a man, to my wounding, &c. i.e. to my utter ruin, or to the wounding and grief of my heart... read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:24
If the slaughter of Cain shall be punished in him that shall kill him, whosoever he be, my death shall be much more certainly and severely revenged by God upon any man that shall murder me. These words may be either, 1. A profane scoff: q.d. Since Cain, my father and pattern in murder, was so far from being punished by the hand of God, that he had a special protection from him that no man should dare to touch him, I (whose murder is not so heinous as his was) shall not fare worse than he, and... read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:25
She gave the name, but not without Adam's consent, Genesis 5:3. She spoke by Divine inspiration. Note that the word seed is used of one single person here, and Genesis 21:13; Genesis 38:8; which confirms the apostle's argument, Galatians 3:16. Instead of Abel; to succeed his father Adam, as Abel should have done in the priesthood, and administration and care of holy things in the church of God. read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:26
Enos properly signifies a miserable man, to note the great wickedness and wretchedness of that generation, which the Hebrew writers generally observe. To call upon the name of the Lord; to pray unto God, to worship God in a more public and solemn manner; praying being here put for the whole worship of God, as Genesis 12:8; Genesis 26:25, and in many other places. According to the marginal version, the sense is this: Then when the world was universally corrupt, and had forsaken God and his... 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
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 4:17
Cain knew his wife; of which phrase see Poole on "Genesis 4:1". He built a city; partly to divert his troubled mind with business and pleasure, and partly for his own security against the enemies and evils which his guilty conscience made him fear, notwithstanding the assurance which God had given him. And this he did as soon as he was in capacity for it, either by the increase of his own posterity, or by the accession of other degenerate sons of Adam to him, who either being banished, or... read more