Genesis 4:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Kain also knewe his wife, which conceiued and bare Henoch: and he built a citie, and called the name of the citie by ye name of his sonne, Henoch.

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  • Gen 5:18 : 18 And Iered liued an hundreth sixtie and two yeeres, and begate Henoch.
  • Gen 5:22 : 22 And Henoch walked with God, after he begate Methushelah, three hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 Also they said, Goe to, let vs builde vs a citie and a towre, whose top may reache vnto the heauen, that we may get vs a name, lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth.
  • 2 Sam 18:18 : 18 Nowe Absalom in his life time had taken and reared him vp a pillar, which is in the kings dale: for he saide, I haue no sonne to keepe my name in remembrance; he called the pillar after his owne name, & it is called vnto this day, Absaloms place.
  • Ps 49:11 : 11 Yet they thinke, their houses, and their habitations shall continue for euer, euen from generation to generation, and call their lands by their names.
  • Eccl 2:4-9 : 4 I haue made my great workes: I haue built me houses: I haue planted me vineyards. 5 I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite. 6 I haue made me cisternes of water, to water therewith the woods that growe with trees. 7 I haue gotten seruants and maides, and had children borne in the house: also I had great possession of beeues and sheepe aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem. 8 I haue gathered vnto me also siluer and gold, and the chiefe treasures of Kings & prouinces: I haue prouided me men singers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, & women taken captiues. 9 And I was great, & increased aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem: also my wisedome remained with me. 10 And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: & this was my portion of all my trauaile. 11 Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 (4:27) And the King spake and sayde, Is not this great Babel, that I haue built for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power, and for the honour of my maiestie?
  • Luke 17:28-29 : 28 Likewise also, as it was in the dayes of Lot: they ate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they built. 29 But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 4:1-3
    3 verses
    83%

    1Afterwarde the man knewe Heuah his wife, which conceiued and bare Kain, and said, I haue obteined a man by the Lord.

    2And againe she brought foorth his brother Habel, & Habel was a keeper of sheepe, and Kain was a tiller of the ground.

    3And in processe of time it came to passe, that Kain brought an oblation vnto the Lorde of the fruite of the ground.

  • Gen 4:15-16
    2 verses
    83%

    15Then the Lord said vnto him, Doubtlesse whosoeuer slayeth Kain, he shalbe punished seue folde; the Lord set a marke vpon Kain, lest any man finding him should kill him.

    16Then Kain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod towarde the Eastside of Eden.

  • Gen 4:24-26
    3 verses
    81%

    24If Kain shalbe auenged seuen folde, truely Lamech, seuentie times seuen folde.

    25And Adam knewe his wife againe, and she bare a sonne, and she called his name Sheth: for God, saide she, hath appointed me another seede for Habel, because Kain slewe him.

    26And to ye same Sheth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enosh. Then beganne men to call vpon the name of the Lord.

  • Gen 4:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18And to Henoch was borne Irad, and Irad begate Mehuiael, and Mehuiael begate Methushael, and Methushael begate Lamech.

    19And Lamech tooke him two wiues: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

  • Gen 5:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Also Enosh liued ninetie yeeres, and begate Kenan.

    10And Enosh liued, after he begate Kenan, eight hundreth and fifteene yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

  • Gen 5:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21Also Henoch liued sixtie & fiue yeeres, and begate Methushelah.

    22And Henoch walked with God, after he begate Methushelah, three hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

  • Gen 4:8
    71%

    8Then Kain spake to Habel his brother; when they were in the fielde, Kain rose vp against Habel his brother, and slewe him.

  • Gen 5:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12Likewise Kenan liued seuentie yeeres, and begate Mahalaleel.

    13And Kenan liued, after he begate Mahalaleel, eight hundreth and fourtie yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

  • Gen 5:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3Nowe Adam liued an hundred and thirtie yeeres, and begate a childe in his owne likenes after his image, and called his name Sheth.

    4And the dayes of Adam, after he had begotten Sheth, were eight hundreth yeeres, and he begate sonnes and daughters.

  • 1 Chr 1:3
    68%

    3Henoch, Methushelah, Lamech,

  • Gen 5:18-19
    2 verses
    68%

    18And Iered liued an hundreth sixtie and two yeeres, and begate Henoch.

    19Then Iered liued, after he begate Henoch, eight hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

  • Luke 3:37
    68%

    37The sonne of Mathusala, the sonne of Enoch, the sonne of Iared, the sonne of Maleleel, the sonne of Cainan,

  • Gen 5:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6And Sheth liued an hundreth and fiue yeeres, and begate Enosh.

    7And Sheth liued, after he begate Enosh, eight hundreth and seuen yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

  • Gen 3:20
    68%

    20(And the man called his wiues name Heuah, because she was the mother of all liuing)

  • Gen 6:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,

    2Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.