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Genesis 4:20 KJV
Genesis · chapter 4 · verse 20
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.Genesis 4:20 · King James Version
Genesis 4:20 in context
18And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
19And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
21And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
22And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- JabalYâbâlJabal, an antediluvianH2989 →
- dwellyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- tentsʼôhela tentH168 →
- AdahʻÂdâhAdah, the name of two womenH5711 →
- bareyâladto bear youngH3205 →
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We have here some particulars concerning Lamech, the seventh from Adam in the line of Cain. Observe, I. His marrying two wives. It was one of the degenerate race of Cain who first transgressed that original law of marriage that two only should be one flesh. Hitherto one man had but one wife at a time;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-22