Genesis 4:17

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Cain's wife [one of Adam's offspring] became pregnant and bore Enoch; and Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top reaches into the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the whole earth.

Genesis 4:16

So Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod [wandering], east of Eden.

Genesis 4:18

To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael the father of Methusael, and Methusael the father of Lamech.

Genesis 5:18

When Jared was 162 years old, Enoch was born.

Genesis 5:22

Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God after the birth of Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

2 Samuel 18:18

Now Absalom in his lifetime had reared up for himself a pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance. He called the pillar after his own name, and to this day it is called Absalom's Monument.

Psalm 49:11

Their inward thought is that their houses will continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands their own [apart from God] and after their own names.

Psalm 49:12

But man, with all his honor and pomp, does not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.

Daniel 4:30

The king said, Is not this the great Babylon that I have built as the royal residence and seat of government by the might of my power and for the honor and glory of my majesty?