22And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
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Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-22)We have here some particulars concerning Lamech, the seventh from Adam in the line of Cain. Observe, I. His marrying two wives. It was one of the degenerate race of Cain who first transgressed that original law of marriage that two only should be one flesh. Hitherto one man had but one wife at a time; but Lamech took two. From the beginning it was not so . Mal. 2:15 ; Matt. 19:5 . See here, 1. Tho…
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