17And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: …
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; …
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-18)We have here a further account of Cain, and what became of him after he was rejected of God. I. He tamely submitted to that part of his sentence by which he was hidden from God’s face; for (Gen. 4:16) he went out from the presence of the Lord , that is, he willingly renounced God and religion, and was content to forego its privileges, so that he might not be under its precepts. He forsook Adam’s f…
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