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

And Jared shall live two and sixty years, and an hundred years, and he shall beget Enoch.

And he

And they will say, Come, we will build to us a city, and a tower, its head to the heavens; and we will make to us a name, lest we shall be dispersed over the face of the earth.

I magnified my work; I builded to me houses; I planted to me vineyards:

The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

And likewise as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

The name

And Absalom took and set up for him in his living, a pillar in the valley of the king; for he said, Not to me a son to call my name to mind: and he will call the pillar by his name, and he will call it The Hand of Absalom, even to this day.

The midst of them their houses forever, their dwellings to generation and generation; they called in their names upon their lands.