92 SARGON'S NAME SYNONYMOUS WITH KING CAIN

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 SARGON'S NAME SYNONYMOUS WITH KING CAIN

 identity of Cain with the Babylonian Sargon is that the name variously rendered Sargon, Sargoni, Sarrukinu, Shargani,

"King Cain," (**1) the first syllable Sar or Shar meaning ruler or King in Babylonia

 origin of Shah, Czar, Sahib, Sire, Sir, etc., 
while the second syllable gon, gani, gina or kinu,  Cain.

SARGON'S DATE
Sargon's date, circa 3,800 B.C. agrees with Cain's.
Adam was created about the year 4,004 B.C. and he is said to have lived 930 years. Cain may have been born soon after 4,004 B.C. and may, like Adam's other descendants before the Flood, have lived many hundreds of years (according to Jewish tradition he lived 730 years..

 Sargon lived long is indicated by the tales of his marvellous exploits and travels. It seems necessary indeed to picture the Babylonian king as endowed with longevity; 

sixth chapter of Genesis -"Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years" -seem to imply that human life was to be curtailed, and while there is no evidence that men did not live to the great ages mentioned in the Bible, the whole weight of tradition tends to show that they did
 "the ancients" lived nearly a thousand years

 longevity of the patriarchs  

Adam lived with Methuselah for about 233 years, that Methuselah died in the year of the Deluge, and that, therefore, "there was only one person needed - the godly Methuselah - to transmit the Sacred Hebrew Records from Adam, the First Father of Mankind, to Noah the Second Father of Mankind. 

 Adam, for example, lived 930 years (Genesis V), while the first king in the list is said to have reigned 900 years. Seth lived 912 years, while King Zugagib lived 940 years. Enos lived 905 years, while Etana reigned 635 years, and the eighth king is said to have reigned 1,200 years, thus outdoing Methuselah, who only lived 969 years.
 Cain (i.e. Sargon) built Erech,  Sargon was the first king of Erech,