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Enki was the god of magic, craftsmanship, and wisdom. There was not as yet population enough for a city, but Cain, as his offspring increased, determined that they should dwell together, under training, in some dedicated common abode. Scholars do agree, however, that civilization emerged in the Fertile Crescent around 10,000 B.C. To give you an idea of the incredible amount of time were dealing with, Enki ruled in Eridu for about 3,500 years before Marduk replaced Enlil at the head of the Mesopotamian pantheon, an event linked to Babylons emergence as the regions dominant power in the 18thcentury B.C. Zephaniah & Habakkuk foretell Judah's fall, Zephaniah warns of the punishment of Judah, Habakkuk asks why the cruel Babylonians succeed, 44. 19 And Lamech took two wives. 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You'll find heaps of discussion about where Cain found his wife on here, in a bunch of different questions, and in Creationists site. We know that the use of the word "bosom" in this instance means more than just some vague, heavenly location. Scholars. Answer. John's Letters to the believers in Asia Minor, 20. Cain's descendants. Genesis 5:18,22 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: . And Cain took Awan his sister to be his wife and she bare him Enoch at the close of the fourth jubilee. "Nod" () is the Hebrew root of the verb "to wander" (). (In the Septuagint's rendering of the same verse God curses Cain to , "trembling". 4:1; Gen. 4:12, 14; Ps.56:9; to flee, Ps. Adam and Eve. To "go off to the land of Nod" plays with the phrase to "nod off", meaning to go to sleep.[14][5]. Although Enlil was the king of the gods, Enki was the keeper of the mes (sounds like mezz), decrees of the gods that formed the fundamental concepts and gifts of civilizationeverything from religious practices to social interaction to music. Altogether, Enoch lived a total of . Over the years, the sandy island was slowly extended by building out over mats of berdi reeds laid at the waters edge, and the surrounding swamplands were gradually drained. The city of Enoch thus becomes man's prototypical city of refuge. 3870. Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. City of Cain. 'Nod' in the Greek language means trembling. The Ubaid civilization got its name from Tell al-`Ubaid, a small settlement mound in southeast Iraq where famous archaeologists Henry Hall and Sir Leonard Woolley dug up the first bits of pottery from those people between 1919 and 1924. Which city was that and what's the background in history? 2 Coon, C.S. Cain and Abel in text and tradition: Jewish and Christian interpretations of the first sibling rivalry. 125126. The Bible teaches us that Cain built a city, the name of the city was Enoch named after Cains son. Map of Ubaid civilization sites in Sumer. The land of Enoch, mentioned in Moses 7:9. Enmerkar is said, on clay tablets, to try and restore the disrupted linguistic unity of the inhabited areas around Uruk. In chapter 7 of the book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith provides us with an extensive account of how Enoch built a city "called the City of Holiness, even ZION" (Moses 7:19). The first city known by archaeologists to exist in Mesopotamia was Eridu. According to Genesis 4:16: And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. Enoch. Many of Lamech's ancestors were likely alive and also lived in the vicinity of Enoch. Cain rebelled against God and created new gods with false stories. Cain would begin a new life, a life without the God who had condemned him. Cain also himself had a son, whose name was Enoch; and he built a city, which he called by the name of his son, Enoch. And wherefore slew he him? The Story of Cain and Abel. The story of Cain and Abel is found in Genesis 4:1-15. are older, Eridu, located in what is today southeastern Iraq, was remembered by later Sumerians as the first city, with a degree of specialization among its citizens not seen before in other settlements. NASB 1995 Rating. 116117. But if its correct, then Alulim might have been Irad, the fourth man, or fourth generation, after creationAdam, Cain, Enoch, Iradand the first king of the first city on Earth, Eriduthe city which bore his name. But these early settlements were not a city and are still considered as part of the Ubaid period. 11:1; Jer. In the end, Josephus's Cain is still a greedy grasper who, rather than repenting from his original crimes, has actually managed to perfect them. 3. [16], In the Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman, the Land of Nod is mythologized as containing a mythical fail-safe against the Scythedom and becomes critically important to the plot of the third book.[17]. If we place a global flood sometime between 4000 and 3500 B.C. Cain could be at the bottom of the sea, for all we know. Either Cain built a city and named it after the mighty Enoch, or else Enoch built a city. He is described as a son of Cain, and father of Irad. Inventions. According to the Sumerian King List, Mesh-ki-ang-gasher was the city of Uruk's first ruler and the man under whom it was built. But it wouldn't stay there forever. 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: . Nimrod wanted to ascend to the holy city and seize it. Cain was young in relative terms and Abel was slightly younger. This city, whose inhabitants would later be translated, was known as the City of Enoch or Zion. Science is the process by which we collect and record information to test theories about the way things are. "Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Cain has gone into restlessness. So Cain departed from the presence of the Lord. In fact, the Sumerians believed Enki personally created Eridu, elevating it from the marshy ground on what was then the shore of the gulf. Cainan was "the land of promise" named after the great-great-grandson of Adam (Moses 6:17). His death is the foundation of the Church. Cain's city is probably Jarmo, in Eastern Iraq. The city of Uruk started sometime before 4000 BC. The name of Enoch means "dedicated one.". Along with An (or Anu) the sky god and Enlil, the god of the air, Enki was one of the three most important gods in Sumer. Jesus, makes mention of the slaying of Abel, (he doesnt mention Cain by name), as the prototypical martyrdom. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, 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. But in mercy upon the open rebel, God put a mark upon Cain, an assurance that any who violated Cain would suffer Divine vengeance even beyond physical death. Genesis 4:17 relates that after arriving in the Land of Nod, Cain's wife bore him a son, Enoch, in whose name he built the first city. There is no biblical record of the birth of Cain so we cant reliably date it, but his younger brother Seth was born in 4918 BC. John's Revelation to the 7 Churches of Asia, John's Letter to the 7 Churches of Asia Minor, The messages to the believers on the coastal plain, The messages to the believers living inland, 21. This website uses cookies to monitor usage (see Privacy Statement in drop-down box under 'Contact Us'). And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Thus began a vision of what would happen to the earth from then to the Millennium, and where Zion would eventually be located. Now, instead of asking why, the lead archaeologist decided earth pressure after burial was the cause2even though none of the skulls were cracked or broken, which would be expected if the deformations had occurred after death. 49:30. archaeologists and sociologistshave known at least since the late 1940s that people throughout Mesopotamia, before they learned how to write, figured out how to turn their children into coneheads. Why Cain Built A CityGenesis 4 pt 8. In some places the serpent was referred to as the worm. The importance of a deity was, as youd guess, tied to the fortunes of its city. This is supposedly after Cain killed Abel, and before Adam and Eve had any other sons and daughters. Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. He could no longer farm the land, so he labored to build a city for his descendants. Thank you for your indepth analysis of this ages old story pastor Bill. ungodly daughters of Cain; and such sin prevailed, that Enoch, the seventh Nimrod, the child of his son Cush, kept Babel, built the first city, and became //christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson i the promise.htm, The Faith of Abraham. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. This happens a lot with prehistoric cultures. Genesis 4:16. For Cain begat Enoch, in whose name he built a city, an earthly one, which was not from home in this world, but rested satisfied with its temporal peace and ///christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 17 of the two fathers.htm, Concerning the Posterity of Adam, and the Ten Generations from Him 2. (en) : an: Enoch [ink] . When he was 65 years old, Enoch, the seventh patriarch after Adam, was called by God to be a prophet. Even if he settles down he can never truly settle down, for he is sentenced by God to go nowhere, and to find nothing, and to have perpetual insecurity. It is only the Enoch mentioned in Genesis 5:18 that the Bible gives any significant information about. It is impossible to fix more definitely the locality of this first of cities, recorded, as Delitzsch says (Genesis, in the place cited. Though the Bible gives little detail about Enoch as a person, we find in the Pearl of Great Price that he considered himself "but a lad" and "slow of speech" (Moses 6:31) when he was called by God to be a prophet. In Sumerian, it wasknown asNun-ki meaning the mighty city (a name later transferred to the mighty city of Babylon). Before God said [Let there be light], he saw everything from that point to the end. Shusterman, Neal. Genesis 4:17. He arrived very early in Sumer from Dilmun, probably the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. before Marduk replaced Enlil at the head of the Mesopotamian pantheon, an event linked to Babylons emergence as the regions dominant power in the 18thcentury B.C. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. The God of the Bible wants us to consider the deeper lessons of this narrative, placing it prominently as the fourth chapter of scripture, after Creation, and the fall. And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, houses were built on the earth, and Cain built a city, and called its name after the name of his son Enoch.' (Four Jubilees would be about 196 years - Enoch was born about - 3808 B.C.) Cain is brought up again, by Jesus and the Apostles. Even after Zion was taken off the earth, there were still those taking up residence in the city. Using the website implies your agreement to the use of cookies. The first city in Mesopotamia, and therefore the oldest city in the world, appeared around 5400 B.C. A city doomed to judgement. [3], Much as Cain's name is connected to the verb meaning "to get" in Genesis 4:1, the name "Nod" closely resembles the word "nad" (), usually translated as "vagabond", in Genesis 4:12. Also, in spite of the Divine sentence passed upon him, he longed for rest from his wanderings. Regardless of its origins, what is most interesting about Eridu is that besides being the oldest city in Mesopotamia, and possibly the world, is that was also the home of the oldest and largest ziggurat in Mesopotamia. (Pseudo-Philo, L.A.B. I have Sumer as existing 6000BCE. 3 "And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of . . The Sumerian King List, dated to about 2100 B.C., records it this way: After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridu. The Sumerian language died out, (as related in Genesis 11), but their Akkadian neighbours language grew and developed into several modern languages. Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch" (Genesis 4:16-17 RSV). [5], Josephus wrote in Antiquities of the Jews (c. AD 93) that Cain continued his wickedness in Nod: resorting to violence and robbery; establishing weights and measures; transforming human culture from innocence into craftiness and deceit; establishing property lines; and building a fortified city. The first city known by archaeologists to exist in, Here, archaeologists have discovered remains of houses built using the ubiquitous reeds found allover this swampy delta. The differences in the story are at least partly due to the ebb and flow of power over the centuries. New American Standard Bible Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and Cain built a city, and named the city Enoch, after the name of his son. After that, the practice seems to disappear. initiated. The story of Cain and his line is designed to teach us something about all of fallen humanity, as regarding our relationship to God, ourselves and our environment. Derek P. Gilbert hosts SkyWatchTV, a Christian television program that airs on several national networks, the long-running interview podcast A View from the Bunker, and co-hosts SciFriday, a weekly television program that analyzes science news with his wife, author Sharon K. Gilbert. "And Enoch beheldangelsdescending out of heaven, bearingtestimonyof the Father and Son; and the Holy Ghost fell on many, and they were caught up by the powers of heaven into Zion" (Moses 7:27). In the English tradition Nod was sometimes described as a desert inhabited only by ferocious beasts or monsters. | GotQuestions.org, Who was Methuselah in the Bible? The Sumerian King List states that the builder of Uruk was Mesh-ki-ang-gasher the son of Utu. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name . Cain was initiating a new (godless) way of life, as well as a new (godless)security, and a completely new (godless) sense of rootedness. Eventually, the people of the City of Enoch were translated and taken from off the earth. Its understood that secular archaeologists and historians wont agree with much of what we believe about human history. Waw id. We are living in the final stages of Cains grand experiment, for the Bible tells us that the real story of human development is the contrast and strivings of two cities, the doomed city of man and the ultimately triumphant city of God! (See? As for their location now, it's quite possible the citizens of the City of Enoch still reside within it. It was built on an island of slightly higher land situated among the low-lying marshlands at the mouth of the River Euphrates near Basra in modern-day Iraq. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. . Enoch (not to be confused with the son of Jared) is the eldest son of Cain and one of the kings of the city of Enoch, which was built by his father who put his name on his homage. The Eridu Crania: A Preliminary Report,, https://allpropastors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/elongated-Skuls-3.jpg, https://allpropastors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo-t.png, Cain, the First City, and the Mystery of Head Shaping, Copyright - All Pro Pastors International. Enoch is not the writer of the "Book of Enoch." This is an uninspired, apocryphal book written many centuries later, probably sometime during the second and first centuries B.C.E. From the scriptures, we know that Enoch came east out of his homeland of Cainan to preach repentance unto the people. The story of Cain; his rejected worship, the murder of his brother, consequently ,his sentence to be a vagabond on earth, and the city he built, is one of the primary lessons of the entire Bible. The city may therefore have been called Eridu after Enoch's son Irad (see Genesis 4:18) (see 4 on Map 35). While some believe these figures are literally the age ofreal individuals, many believe they represent much longer periods of ancestral dynasties within the family line. PHONE: 435-586-1119 FAX: None Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 9 am - 4:30 pm., Friday 9 am - 1 pm. Through Enoch, Cain's lineage begins. The first city mentioned in the Bible. But the Sumerian's were slowly infiltrating the area and their language, for a time, became predominant until eventually "the earth (land) was of one tongue, and of the same speech" (Gen 11:1). Gen 4:25 - 5:32 Adam and Eve have another son called Seth, and the Biblesketches outtheir family history. 40,000 residents with about 80,000 people living in the surrounding areas - city-states were a feature of southern Mesopotamia. The concept of Cain's Enoch corresponding to Egypt, could semi-highlight a common motif of sibling struggle; by the sons of Seth (Israelites) in a land that allegedly once belonged to the sons of . The Eridu Crania: A Preliminary Report, Sumer 5, 1949, p 103. after his call, the Lord showed Enoch, and us, a little more about the ancient prophet's divine potential: And we find later in Moses that God's promises to Enoch were fulfilled as he led the people of God against their enemies. Answer:Adamthe man in the gardentook on the name of men and represented men in the scenario we see in the garden of Eden. Why it is That, as Soon as Cain's Son Enoch Has Been Named, the We must first see why, in the enumeration of Cain's posterity, after Enoch, in whose name the city was built, has been first of all mentioned, the rest are at //christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 21 why it is that.htm, What Cain's Reason was for Building a City So Early in the History Scripture may not be reckoned incredible when it relates that one man built a city at a man the father of all, and Cain himself, and his son Enoch, by whose //augustine/city of god/chapter 8 what cains reason was.htm, Cain's Family and their Inventions. Was Jesus an outspoken rabbi or was he God? The last word, Enoch, might be a later addition. The convicted murderer could have chosen to submit to Gods sentence, and put himself under the mercy and protection of God, but he wanted some better security than Gods mark. But if its correct, then Alulim might have been Irad, the fourth man, or fourth generation, after creation, and the first king of the first city on Earth, Eridu, Enki was the god of magic, craftsmanship, and wisdom. NIV Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. )In the Epistle of Jude he described as "the seventh from Adam;" and the number is probably noticed as conveying the idea of divine completion and rest, while Enoch was . The old question, Where did Cain find his wife? isnt that hard to answer.). What a contrast is Cains city to the lowly manger. Whoever indeed forsakes God, who abandons understanding, whose thinking is continually 'in the land of Nod' dwells there today also, that is, that person remains in wicked unsettlement of heart and in commotion of mind.". Adam, for example, "lived a total of 930 years Genesis 5:5), while Seth lived for 912 years (Genesis 5:8). Your theological questions answered right here on Quick Study Q&AEmail questions to [email protected]: . Genesis 5:22-24 says, "After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. The realization that they had disappointed their Creator and condemned their children and their childrens children until the end of time to lives apart from Yahweh must have been nearly unbearable. He would himself define life, beauty and meaning without God. The Lord's tender admonition seems the type that would be aimed at a child whose petulance couldn't be contained. ( I John 3:12,16). The first city was built, not by Enoch but by Cain. The Journey continues from Sinai to Moab, The Israelites defeat King Sihon and King Og, The Israelites defeat the kings of Midian, Canaan is divided among the twelve tribes, 28. According to the Biblical account, the first Mesopotamian city was built by Cain's descendents. But when the Divine sentence was passed, basically divorcing Cain from the earth for life, cursing any attempts at farming, and making him a homeless exile, Cain responded with passionate pleading. Again, this is speculative and it may be way off base so dont take it as gospel. Why is your face downcast?" Leiden: Brill, 2011. If we look carefully at the name Mesh-ki-ang-gasher we may see a similarity between Cain and Kian Mesh-ki-ang-gasher. Although Enlil was the king of the gods, Enki was the keeper of the, (sounds like mezz), decrees of the gods that formed the fundamental concepts and gifts of civilization. This city is the birthplace of paganism. Something strange happened when Enoch was 65, from which time "He walked with God." Enoch was given a prophecy that as long as his firstborn son 'Methuselah' was alive, the judgement of the flood would be withheld, but as soon as he died, the flood would be sent forth. Eve said, God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him (Gen 4:25). The Romano-Jewish world of the New Testament, 22. To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. Cain built a city and named it after his first born son, Enoch. He came to love in the land of Nod. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. The eldest son of Cain ( Genesis 4:17), who built a city east of Eden in the land of Nod, and called it "after the name of his son Enoch."This is the first "city" mentioned in Scripture. toiling to coax enough food from the ground to survive, the pain of bringing new life into the world, and all the rest. "Some authors carried the groaning and shaking interpretation over to Gen 4:16 when they commented on Cain's dwelling place. Imagine a 365-year-old citydisappeared. It provides deep and powerful insights into crucial Restoration doctrines, particularly doctrines relating to the plan of salvation. The city of the Whore eventually becomes a self-destructive enterprise. Moses 6-7. 1 Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Fluckiger-Hawker, E, Robson, E., and Zlyomi, G. The Sumerian King List: Translation, The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section2/tr211.htm), retrieved 12/24/16. The Babylonian creation myth, the Enuma Elish, describes how everything on Earth came into being through the defeat of the chaos goddess Tiamat by Marduk, son of Enki/Ea, the chief god of Babylon. Paul's Journey to Cyprus, Pamphylia & Galatia, Paul & Barnabas return to Antioch in Syria, Paul & Barnabas attend the Council of Jerusalem, Paul & Barnabas take the decision to Antioch, 10. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the ancestor of . The majority of Adams antediluvian male offspring fathered children before they reached the age of 200, including four of them who were in their 160s when they first became fathers. //the expositors bible the epistle to the hebrews/chapter xi the faith of.htm, Enoch: Father of Methuselah--Transporting of, Enoch: Father of Methuselah--Transporting of Called Henoch.