Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 4:23

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 4:23 - 4:23

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 4:23 - 4:23

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4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:7 - 4:7
4:8 - 4:8
4:9 - 4:9
4:10 - 4:10
4:11 - 4:11
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:14 - 4:14
4:15 - 4:15
4:16 - 4:16
4:17 - 4:17
4:19 - 4:19
4:23 - 4:23
4:26 - 4:26

Lamech said unto his wives - This speech is in a poetical form, probably the fragment of an old poem, transmitted to the time of Moses. It seems to indicate that Lamech had slain a man in self-defense, and its drift is to assure his wives, by the preservation of Cain, that an unintentional homicide, as he was, could be in no danger.