Genesis 4:17 “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.”
People often wonder about who Adam and Eve’s children married, but the logical answer is obvious: each other! It seems like a good possibility that Cain married before he killed Abel, because what sister would have consented to be his wife otherwise? Of course Cain could have also kidnapped or blackmailed a sister to be his wife. Did Cain’s wife live in fear of her brother and husband all of her days? The text doesn’t elaborate on such curiosities, but it does intimate that Cain himself lived in fear, for when his first child was born, he built a city, showing his continued disbelief God’s promise of protection, and curse of vengeance against anyone who might lift his hand to kill Cain. Cain’s faithlessness in this promise is evidenced in his decision to build the first city on the planet. Worse yet, Cain’s city was an act of open defiance and rebellion against God, who had declared that Cain was to be a fugitive and a vagabond. He was not to settle in one place, but to be a nomad and wanderer. Today, cities continue to be hotbeds not only of crime and vice, but of human pride, arrogance and rebellion against God.
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