into the “land of Nod”, i.e., the land of “exile”, which is said to have been
in the “east of Eden,” and there he built a city, the first we read of, and
called it after his son’s name, Enoch. His descendants are enumerated to
the sixth generation. They gradually degenerated in their moral and
spiritual condition till they became wholly corrupt before God. This
corruption prevailed, and at length the Deluge was sent by God to prevent
the final triumph of evil. (See ABEL.)
(2.) A town of the Kenites, a branch of the Midianites (Joshua 15:57), on
the east edge of the mountain above Engedi; probably the “nest in a rock”
mentioned by Balaam (Numbers 24:21). It is identified with the modern
Yekin, 3 miles south-east of Hebron.
- CAINAN possession; smith. (1.) The fourth antediluvian patriarch, the
eldest son of Enos. He was 70 years old at the birth of his eldest son
Mahalaleel, after which he lived 840 years (Genesis 5:9-14), and was 910
years old when he died. He is also called Kenan (1 Chronicles 1:2).
(2.) The son of Arphaxad (Luke 3:36). He is nowhere named in the Old
Testament. He is usually called the “second Cainan.”
- CAKE Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They
were salted, but unleavened (Exodus 29:2; Leviticus 2:4). In idolatrous
worship thin cakes or wafers were offered “to the queen of heaven”
(Jeremiah 7:18; 44:19).
Pancakes are described in 2 Samuel 13:8, 9. Cakes mingled with oil and
baked in the oven are mentioned in Leviticus 2:4, and “wafers unleavened
anointed with oil,” in Exodus 29:2; Leviticus 8:26; 1 Chronicles 23:29.
“Cracknels,” a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things Jeroboam
directed his wife to take with her when she went to consult Ahijah the
prophet at Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard cakes were carried by the
Gibeonites when they came to Joshua (9:5, 12). They described their bread
as “mouldy;” but the Hebrew word nikuddim, here used, ought rather to be
rendered “hard as biscuit.” It is rendered “cracknels” in 1 Kings 14:3. The
ordinary bread, when kept for a few days, became dry and excessively
hard. The Gibeonites pointed to this hardness of their bread as an evidence
that they had come a long journey.
We read also of honey-cakes (Exodus 16:31), “cakes of figs” (1 Samuel
25:18), “cake” as denoting a whole piece of bread (1 Kings 17:12), and “a