Genesis 4:17
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
16And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Cross References
Genesis 5:22And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
2 Samuel 18:18Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself the 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 Absalom's monument unto this day.
Psalms 49:12(49-13) But man abideth not in honour; he is like the beasts that perish.
Daniel 4:30(4-27) The king spoke, and said: 'Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?'
Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:17-19
The Family of Cain. ( b. c. 3875.) 16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord , and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. 17 And 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. 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. We have here a further account of Cain, and what became of him after he was rejected of God. I. He tamely… Read the whole commentary →