Lamech
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Oct 28, 2026
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
Better and more noble writers bring shooting from a more noble inventor, as Plato, Callimachus, and Galen from Apollo.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
Yet long afore those days do we read it in the Bible of shooting expressly, and also, if we shall believe Nicholas de Lyra, Lamech killed Cain with a shaft.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
So this great continuance of shooting doth not a little praise shooting.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
nor that neither doth not a little set it out, that it is referred to the invention of Apollo, for which point shooting is highly praised of Galen, where he saith that mean crafts be first found out by men or beasts, as weaving by a spider, and such other, but high and commendable sciences by gods, as shooting and music by Apollo." and thus shooting, for the necessity of it used in Adam's days, for the nobleness of it referred to Apollo, hath not been only commended in all tongues and writers, but also had in great price, both in their best commonwealths in wartime for the defence of their country, and of all degrees of men in peacetime, both for the honesty that is joined with it, and the profit that followeth of it.
ScafiHOST
I mean, if that formula would work, we wouldn't have any kind of terrorist act in the world since the 1970s or 80s.
ScafiHOST
Except that every time that you meet violence with violence, guess what? The party that has received violence will always think like the spirit of Lamech.
ScafiHOST
Oh, you stepped on my foot.
ScafiHOST
I'm going to kill you.
ScafiHOST
I mean, if that formula would work, we wouldn't have any kind of terrorist act in the world since the 1970s or 80s.
ScafiHOST
Except that every time that you meet violence with violence, guess what? The party that has received violence will always think, like the spirit of Lamech, oh, you stepped on my foot, I'm going to kill you.
ScafiHOST
Or if you've done something to me, I'm going to revenge
OrionHOST
you 70 times 7.
Laura SangerGUEST
Well, so his bloodline was marked by iniquity and that intensified throughout the generations.
Laura SangerGUEST
Well, you get to the seventh generation and now you have Lamech.
Laura SangerGUEST
Lamech was the first polygamist.
Laura SangerGUEST
So not only, now Lamech walked in the same murderous spirit as Cain because he killed a young man just for injuring him.
Laura SangerGUEST
So not only did he have the iniquity of bloodshed, but now he added the iniquity of sexual perversion to it as well.
Laura SangerGUEST
And so it intensified.
W. Scott McAndlessGUEST
It goes back Genesis 4 too.
W. Scott McAndlessGUEST
It's the whole story of Lamech, because you know what, Cain kills Abel, and then God says, well, if anyone kills you, Cain, seven of theirs are going to get killed.
W. Scott McAndlessGUEST
So that escalating violence, and it's not God who kills, it's Cain's family and clan that are going to kill in retaliation.
W. Scott McAndlessGUEST
And we know that because five generations later, the descendant of Cain is Lamech and he boasts to his wife that somebody looked at him sideways and so he killed him.
W. Scott McAndlessGUEST
And then he composes this little poem.
W. Scott McAndlessGUEST
If anyone hits me, if anyone kills me, 77 of theirs.
W. Scott McAndlessGUEST
Because when, you know, in the New Testament, when I think it's Peter asked Jesus, how many times do I have to forgive my brother? Seven times.
W. Scott McAndlessGUEST
And Jesus comes back, no, 77 times.
James BoiceHOST
The fourth chapter of Genesis, for example, deals with it at considerable length.
James BoiceHOST
That chapter begins with the story of Cain's murder of his brother Abel, and it ends with Lamech's murder of a young man who simply wounded him, and moreover boasting about it.
James BoiceHOST
This is the first example of poetry in human history.
James BoiceHOST
And it's a man boasting about having killed somebody else.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He sent a message to one man.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, that is Noah.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And the message was two words long, and the book gives them, and they are, hide thyself.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Go to Noah, he said, and tell him in my name, hide thyself, and tell him what is coming, that the whole earth is going to be washed, that a flood is coming over all of it and everything on it, and tell him how to get out of the way so that he lives and so that his children live and there is somebody left afterward.
Matthew EverhardHOST
Remember a couple of weeks ago, we still get common grace Even for those who are outside of the electing favor of God, they still get some common grace, God preserving their civilization.
Matthew EverhardHOST
But then last week, what did we see? I thought Pastor Lincoln did a marvelous job with this text last week with Lamech.
Matthew EverhardHOST
who not only does he threaten violence to his wives, plural, he threatens to murder anybody who would even threaten him many times over Cain's actual violence.
Matthew EverhardHOST
But also add this, Lamech perverts the marriage ordinance of one man and one woman by taking multiple wives to himself.
Matthew EverhardHOST
And then bringing about this new concept or this new construct of polygamy here.
Matthew EverhardHOST
And so this would be probably the least time.
Matthew EverhardHOST
We would not see this.
Matthew EverhardHOST
We would not expect this to happen.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
It's just ongoing.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
The language is very similar to the situation in Genesis 4.24 where it says, if Cain's revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech's is 77-fold.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
So Lamech had been wronged by someone insulting him, and he wanted to murder the person.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
I mean, just way out of proportion, vengeance.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
And he talked about it being 77 times more revenge.
Mark BiltzHOST
It reaches Cain.
Mark BiltzHOST
Then Lamech.
Mark BiltzHOST
Then the violence in the time of Noah in Genesis 6.
Mark BiltzHOST
This is precisely how a polluted source imagery works.
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