Genesis 4:9

Then the Lord said vnto Kain, Where is Habel thy brother? Who answered, I cannot tell. Am I my brothers keeper?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?

In Context

8Then Kain spake to Habel his brother. And when they were in the fielde, Kain rose vp against Habel his brother, and slewe him.

10Againe he said, What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me from the earth.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:26Then Iudah said vnto his brethren, What auaileth it, if we slay our brother, though wee keepe his blood secret?

Job 22:13But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

Psalms 9:13Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lord: consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate mee, thou that liftest me vp from the gates of death,

Proverbs 28:13He that hideth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but he that confesseth, and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.

Acts 5:4Whiles it remained, appertained it not vnto thee? and after it was solde, was it not in thine owne power? howe is it that thou hast conceiued this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lyed vnto men, but vnto 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 →

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