Genesis 4:9
“Where is your brother Abel?” the Lord asked Cain. “How should I know?” he replied. “Am I supposed to be my brother's care-giver?”
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10“What have you done?” the Lord asked. “Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.
Cross References
Genesis 37:26“What's the point of killing our brother?” Judah asked his brothers. “Then we'd have to cover up his death!
Job 22:13But you ask, ‘What does God know? How can he see and judge what happens down here in darkness?
Psalms 9:13Be gracious to me, Lord! Look at how my enemies are persecuting me! Grab me back from the gates of death,
Proverbs 28:13People who hide their sins won't succeed, but those who confess and renounce their sins will be shown kindness.
Acts 5:4While you had the land, didn't it belong to you? And after you sold it, didn't you still have control over what you did with the money? Why did you decide to do this? You haven't lied to human beings, but to God!”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:9
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. We have here the progress of Cain's anger, and the issue of it in Abel's murder, which may be considered two ways:— I. As Cain's sin; and a scarlet, crimson, sin it was, a sin of the first magnitude, a sin against the light and law of nature, and which the consciences even of bad men have startled at. See in it, 1. The sad effects of sin's entrance into the world and… Read the whole commentary →