Genesis 4:17

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Summary

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.

Enoch

Genesis 5:18

And he

The name

2 Samuel 18:18

Psalm 49:11

Bible References

Enoch

When Jared had lived 162 years, he fathered Enoch.

And he

Then they said, "Come on! Let's build ourselves a city and a tower, with its summit in the heavens, and let's make a name for ourselves so we won't be scattered over the surface of the whole earth."

With respect to my extravagant works, I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.

he commented to himself, "Isn't Babylon great? I've built a royal palace in it by my own might and power, for the sake of my majesty."

So it was in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

The name

While Absalom had been living, he had erected a pillar as a monument to himself in King's Valley because he had been telling himself, "I don't have a son to carry on my family name." So he named the pillar after himself it's called Absalom's Monument even today.

Their inner thoughts are on their homes forever; their dwellings from generation to generation. They even name their lands after themselves.