 | William Alexander - 1847 - 304 pages
...Hebrew song. " Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, Ye wives of Lamech hearken to my speech; For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt." " When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His list'ning brethren stood around, And, wond'ring, on their... | |
 | Charles Roger - 1847 - 342 pages
...wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice ; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech : for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged seven fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold. CHAP. VI. 4 There were... | |
 | sir Edward Denny (4th bart.) - 1849 - 204 pages
...his wives Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech : I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt." Now what does he mean by these words ? He here confesses a crime — a deed of blood, it is true —... | |
 | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette - 1850 - 584 pages
...wives, Adah and Zillah, ' Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech : for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.' If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold.' " And Adam knew his wife again,... | |
 | George Bush - 1850 - 380 pages
...wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. David is expressly described as playing upon it with his hand ; but it appears from Josephus that it... | |
 | Charles Mountford Burnett - 1850 - 340 pages
...of the manner in which Cain came to his end, which explains that passage in Genesis, " I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt." — Gen. iv. 23. The narrative in the Book of Jaser is as follows : — " And Lamech was old and advanced... | |
 | John Kitto - 1851 - 538 pages
...give them thus : — " Adah and Zillah, hear my voice ! Wives of Lamech receive my speech ! If I slew a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt : If Cain was avenged seven times, Then Lamech seventy times seven." This is not very plain as to the meaning... | |
 | 1851 - 728 pages
...generation of our race : " Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamccb, Hearken unto my speech ! I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt : If Cain shall be avenged seven fold, Truly Lamech seventy.and-seven fold." This glimpse of social life in that... | |
 | Elias De La Roche Rendell - 1851 - 334 pages
...church in which vastation * was experienced : hence he is represented to have said, " I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold." f Every one, who is so disposed,... | |
 | 1851 - 534 pages
...give them thus : — " Adah and Zillah, hear my voice ! Wives of Lamech receive my speech ! If I slew a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt : If Cain was avenged seven times, Then Lamech seventy times seven." This is not very plain as to the meaning... | |
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And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 
