Cross references

Genesis 4:17

And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.

Genesis 4:17 BSB

Genesis 4:17 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 0 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 49:11 (2 votes) and Ecclesiastes 2:4–11 (2 votes). 4 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 5 to Luke 17.

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Which verses does Genesis 4:17 point to?

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  1. Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes.

  2. I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees. …

  3. the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

  4. When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch.

  5. And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

  6. “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

  7. During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.

  8. It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Which verses point to Genesis 4:17?

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