Abel is the second wire of Adam and Eve according to the Genèse, the first book of the Bible.

Caïn is the groin, Abel is the second and Seth the third wire, after them Adam and Eve had many of another children. It is starting from Seth that the genealogy of Jesus is built. Indeed, the Bible names all the descendants of Seth to Joseph, the husband of Marie, mother of Jesus.

Abel in the Bible

Caïn the elder one cultivates the ground and Abel (etymology: of Hebrew blows, vapor, precarious existence) guard the herd. The first offer with God fruits of his culture, the second a lamb. God looks with Abel favor and his offering, but not that of Caïn. Both believed in a God, their parents having undoubtedly taught them why they lived out of Eden, and why the access was prohibited to them.

Jealous, Caïn kills his/her brother while being thrown on him whereas they are with the fields (Genesis 4:3 - 8); it is the first murder registered in the Bible.

According to the Genesis (5: 3), as Seth was born undoubtedly death shortly after from Abel , whereas Adam was 130 years old, Abel could have nearly 100 years when he died as a martyr.

In the Old Testament

  • Genèse 4.2 It still gave birth to his/her Abel brother. Abel was shepherd, and Caïn was plowman.

  • Genesis 4.4 and Abel, on his side, did of them one of first-born of its herd and their grease. The Eternal carried a favorable glance on Abel and his offering;

  • Genesis 4.8 However, Caïn addressed the word to his/her Abel brother; but, as they were in the fields, Cain was thrown on his/her Abel brother, and killed it.

  • Genesis the 4.9 Eternal called to Caïn: Where is your Abel brother? He answered: I do not know; am I the guard of my brother?

  • Genèse 4.25 Adam still knew his wife; she gave birth to a son, and called it name of Seth, because, she, God say gave me another son to the place of Abel, that Cain killed.

  • Genesis the 50.11 inhabitants of the country, Cananéens, were pilot of this mourning in the surface of Athad, and they said: Here is a deep mourning among the Egyptians! This is why one gave the name of Abel Mitsraim to this surface which is beyond the Jordan.

  • Nombres 33.49 They camped close to the Jordan, since Beth Jeschimoth to Abel Sittim, in the plains of Moab.

  • Judges the 7.22 three hundred men still sounded trumpet; and, in all the camp, the Eternal made them turn the sword the ones against the others. The camp flees until Beth Schitta towards Tserera, to the edge of Abel Mehola close to Tabbath.

  • Judges 11.33 It made them test a very great defeat, since Aroer until worms Minnith, space which contained twenty cities, and to Abel Keramim. And the wire of Ammon were humiliated in front of the children of Israel.

  • 2 Samuel 20.14 Joab crossed all the tribes of Israel in the direction of Abel Beth Maaca, and all the men of elite gathered and followed it.

  • 2 Samuel 20.15 They besieged Scheba in Abel Beth Maaca, and they eleverent against the city a terrace which reached the rampart. All the people which were with Joab sapped the wall to make it fall.

  • 2 Samuel 20.18 And it says: Formerly there was habit to say: That one consults Abel! And all finished thus.

  • 1 Kings 4.12 Baana, wire of Achilud, had Thaanac and Meguiddo, and any Beth Schean which is close to Tsarthan below Jizreel, since Beth Schean to Abel Mehola, until of Jokmeam.

  • 1 Kings 15.20 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa; it sent the chiefs of its army against the towns of Israel, and it beat Ijjon, daN, Abel Beth Maaca, any Kinneroth, and all the country of Nephthali.

  • 1 Kings 19.16 You will oindras also Jehu, wire of Nimschi, for king d' Israel; and you will oindras Elisee, wire of Schaphath, Abel Mehola, for prophet has your place.

  • 2 Kings 15.29 Of the time of Pekach, king d' Israel, Tiglath Pileser, king d' Assyrie, came and took Ijjon, Abel Beth Maaca, Janoach, Kedesch, Hatsor, Galaad and Galileo, all country of Nephthali, and it took along captive the inhabitants in Assyrie.

  • 2 Chronicles 16.4 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa; it sent the chiefs of its army against the towns of Israel, and they struck Ijjon, daN, Abel Maim, and all the stores of the towns of Nephthali.

In the New Testament

  • Matthieu 23.35 "so that falls down on you all widespread innocent blood on the ground, since the blood of Abel the Juste to the blood of Zacharie, wire of Barachie, that you concealed between the temple and the autel."

  • Luc 11.51 " since the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharie, keep silent between the furnace bridge and the temple; yes, I say it to you, it will be request counts has this generation."
  • Epistle with the Hebrews 11.4 " It is by the faith which Abel offered has God a sacrifice more excellent than that of Cain; it is by it that it was declares right, God approving his offerings; and it is by it that he still speaks, though mort."
  • Epistle with the Hebrews 12.24 " of Jesus who is the mediator of the new alliance, and of the blood of the sprinkling which speaks better than that about Abel."
  • First epistle of Jean 3.12 " Let us not be like Caïn: it belonged to Bad and killed his brother. And why did it kill it? Because the actions of Caïn were bad, while those of his/her brother were justes."

Abel Like Martyr in the New Testament

Jesus speaks about Abel like the first martyr, victim of the religious persecution of Caïn, his intolerant brother. Thus he says that Abel lived at the origin of the foundation of the world (Luc, chapter 11, verse 48-51). in the meaning of the Greek word Kosmos (world of the men). The blood of Abel was certainly versed at the time of its martyrdom, but it did not repurchase anybody, not besides than the blood of the sheep than it had offered in sacrifice. Actually, its blood shouted towards God so that he avenges it for Caïn, his assassin.

The blood of Jesus which according to the Epistle with the Hebrews, ratified new Alliance, speaks better than that about Abel in the sense that he shouts towards God so that he makes mercy with all the men of faith like Abel. Moreover it is thanks to the blood of Jesus that their redemption is possible.

Abel in Coran

The Coran tells the history of wire of Adam. They do not have a name. They are not characterized by their profession as in the Bible: one Pasteur the other farmer. On the other hand the Arab tradition their gives name Hâbîl for Abel and Qâbîl for Caïn.

The two brothers Caïn and Abel did each one an offering or sacrifice with God (Allah), but only that of Abel was accepted. By jealousy, Caïn then promised to kill his/her brother, but this one answered: “Allah accepts the offering only on behalf of the piles. If you extend towards me your hand to kill me, me, I will not extend towards you my hand to kill you: because I fear Allah, the Lord of the Universe. ”.

Caïn nevertheless killed Abel and a very deep feeling of remorse invades it, it became thus losing.

According to the religious traditions, Abel would be thus the assassinated first, the killed first and the first dead of the History. Its corpse would be the first corpse buried under ground of the History.

See too

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