Genesis 4:17
and Cain knoweth his wife, and she conceiveth, and beareth Enoch; and he is building a city, and he calleth the name of the city, according to the name of his son — Enoch.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16And Cain goeth out from before Jehovah, and dwelleth in the land, moving about east of Eden;
Cross References
Genesis 5:22And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
2 Samuel 18:18And Absalom hath taken, and setteth up for himself in his life, the standing-pillar that [is] in the king's valley, for he said, 'I have no son to cause my name to be remembered;' and he calleth the standing-pillar by his own name, and it is called 'The monument of Absalom' unto this day.
Psalms 49:12And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.
Daniel 4:30the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?
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 →