From Nave’s Topical Bible
Zillah
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 3Passages listed
- 1Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Wife of LamechGenesis 4:19Genesis 4:22Genesis 4:23
The passages, in Bible order (3)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 4:19
And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
Commentary on Genesis 4:192 voices
Abel's was a more excellent sacrifice than Cain's; Cain's was only a sacrifice of acknowledgment offered to the Creator; the meat- offerings of the fruit of the ground were no more: but Abel brought a sacrifice of atonement, the blood whereof was shed in order to remission, thereby owning himself a sinner, deprecating God's wrath, and imploring his favour in a Mediator.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
Jubal was a famous musician, and particularly an organist, and the first that gave rules for that noble art or science of music. When Jabal had set them in a way to be rich, Jubal put them in a way to be merry. From Jubal probably the Jubilee trumpet was so called; for the best music was that which proclaimed liberty and redemption.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
- Genesis 4:22
And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Commentary on Genesis 4:222 voices
And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. We have here some particulars concerning Lamech, the seventh from Adam in the line of Cain. It was one of the degenerate race of Cain who first transgressed that original law of marriage that two only should be one flesh.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Genesis 4:23
Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
Commentary on Genesis 4:232 voices
And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Abel's was a more excellent sacrifice than Cain's; Cain's was only a sacrifice of acknowledgment offered to the Creator; the meat- offerings of the fruit of the ground were no more: but Abel brought a sacrifice of atonement, the blood whereof was shed in order to remission, thereby owning himself a sinner, deprecating God's wrath, and imploring his favour in a Mediator.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical