9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. …
And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-12)We have here a full account of the trial and condemnation of the first murderer. Civil courts of judicature not being yet erected for this purpose, as they were afterwards (Gen. 9:6), God himself sits Judge; for he is the God to whom vengeance belongs, and who will be sure to make inquisition for blood, especially the blood of saints. Observe, I. The arraignment of Cain: The Lord said unto Cain, W…
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