Genesis 4:17

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • Gen 5:18 : 18 And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch:
  • Gen 5:22 : 22 and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
  • 2 Sam 18:18 : 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, unto this day.
  • Ps 49:11 : 11 Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.
  • Eccl 2:4-9 : 4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards; 5 I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit; 6 I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared; 7 I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem; 8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts. 9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. 10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
  • Luke 17:28-29 : 28 Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 4:1-3
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    83%

    1And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with [the help of] Jehovah.

    2And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

    3And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah.

  • Gen 4:15-16
    2 verses
    83%

    15And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.

    16And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

  • Gen 4:24-26
    3 verses
    81%

    24If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

    25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For, [said she], God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.

    26And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah.

  • Gen 4:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael; and Mehujael begat Methushael; and Methushael begat Lamech.

    19And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

  • Gen 5:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan:

    10and Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Gen 5:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

    22and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Gen 4:8
    71%

    8And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

  • Gen 5:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel:

    13and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Gen 5:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

    4and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters.

  • 1 Chr 1:3
    68%

    3Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

  • Gen 5:18-19
    2 verses
    68%

    18And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch:

    19and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Luke 3:37
    68%

    37the [son] of Methuselah, the [son] of Enoch, the [son] of Jared, the [son] of Mahalaleel, the [son] of Cainan,

  • Gen 5:6-7
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    68%

    6And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enosh:

    7and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Gen 3:20
    68%

    20And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

  • Gen 6:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

    2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.