Home › Bible Stories › Dark Chronicles › The First MurderDark Chronicles3 min read★ FeaturedThe First MurderHe knew what he was doing. He did it anyway.📖Based on Genesis 4:8The offering had been rejected.Cain knew why. He had brought what was easy, not what was best.His face fell. He was angry.God asked him why he was angry. Told him if he did well, he would be accepted.But also told him that sin was crouching at the door. That its desire was for him.That he must rule over it.He didn't.He talked to his brother Abel in the field.The text doesn't record what he said.Just that he rose up against his brother and killed him.God came to Cain afterward.He asked: Where is Abel your brother?Cain said: I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?He lied to God.God said the voice of his brother's blood was crying to him from the ground.That the ground that had received his brother's blood would be cursed for Cain.That it would no longer yield its strength to him.That he would be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.Cain said: My punishment is greater than I can bear.He was worried about being killed by others.Not about what he had done.Not about his brother.About himself.God put a mark on him and sent him away.He went east of Eden.He built a city.He named it after his son.He went on living.Abel did not.The blood in the ground kept speaking.It always does.Scripture — Genesis 4:8"And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him."Reflection›Sin was described as crouching at the door before he opened it. The warning came before the act.›His first concern after the murder was his own safety. That inversion is its own kind of judgment.CainAbelmurderjealousyconsequenceShare This StoryShare on WhatsApp🔗 Copy LinkNext story →The Spirit DepartsRelated StoriesThe Spirit Departs1 Samuel 16:14→David on the Roof2 Samuel 11:4→Achan Under the TentJoshua 7:21→More from this series: all dark chronicles · all Bible stories