Genesis 4:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

‘And Lamech took two wives, the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah.'

Here we have the first suggestion of someone having more than one wife. It may have been a boast to Lamech, but the compiler of the Genesis 1-11 epic probably saw it as another downward step in man's continuing fall.

Genesis 4:19

19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.