Genesis 4:20
And Adah bare Iabal, who was the father of such as dwell in the tents, and of such as haue cattell.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
In Context
19And Lamech tooke him two wiues: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
21And his brothers name was Iubal, who was the father of all that play on the harpe and organes.
Cross References
Genesis 4:2And againe she brought foorth his brother Habel, and Habel was a keeper of sheepe, and Kain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 25:27And the boyes grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, and liued in the fields: but Iaakob was a plaine man, and dwelt in tentes.
1 Chronicles 4:4And Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah: these are the sonnes of Hur the eldest sonne of Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem.
John 8:44Ye are of your father the deuill, and the lustes of your father ye will doe: hee hath bene a murtherer from the beginning, and abode not in the trueth, because there is no trueth in him. When hee speaketh a lie, then speaketh hee of his owne: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
Hebrews 11:9By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promise.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:20-23
The Family of Lamech. ( b. c. 3875.) 19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. 21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. 22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. We have here some particulars concerning Lamech,… Read the whole commentary →