Genesis 4:9
Then Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?”
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10Yahweh said, “What have you done? Your brother's blood is calling out to me from the ground.
Cross References
Genesis 37:26Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
Job 22:13You say, 'What does God know? 1 Can he judge through the thick darkness? 1
Psalms 9:13Have mercy on me, Yahweh; see how I am oppressed by those who hate me, 1 you who can snatch me from the gates of death. 1
Proverbs 28:13The one who hides his sins will not prosper, 1 but the one who confesses them and forsakes them will be shown mercy. 1
Acts 5:4While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own, and after it was sold, was it not in your control? How is it that you thought of this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men, 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 →