Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died. Methuselah thus enjoys the distinction of having reached the greatest age recorded for any human being.
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died. Methuselah thus enjoys the distinction of having reached the greatest age recorded for any human being.
Verse Genesis 5:27. _THE DAYS OF METHUSELAH WERE NINE HUNDRED SIXTY AND_ _NINE YEARS_] This is the longest life mentioned in Scripture, and probably the longest ever lived; but we have not authority...
- Section V - The Line to Noah - The Line of Sheth 1. ספר _s__e__pher_ “writing, a writing, a book.” 9. קינן _qēynān_, Qenan, “possessor, or spearsman.” 12. מהללאל mahelal'ēl, Mahalalel, “prais...
III. THE BOOK OF THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM CHAPTER 5 Adam and His Seed Through Seth _ 1. Adam (Genesis 5:1)_ 2. Seth (Genesis 5:6) 3. Enos (Genesis 5:9) 4. Cainan ...
Sethite Genealogy of Antediluvians. With the exception of Genesis 5:29 this comes from P, as is clear from the style, each statement being cast in the same mould, and the whole forming a mere catalogu...
_AND METHUSELAH LIVED AFTER HE BEGAT LAMECH SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY AND TWO YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE DESCENDANTS OF ADAM TO NOAH The purpose of the historian in giving the names and ages of the antediluvian Patriarchs was, no doubt, to show the glorious ancestry of the chosen race, and to account...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 5 ADAM’S FAMILY V1 These are Adam’s *descendants. When God created man, he made man similar to God. V2 He created them as man and woman. He promis...
We do not know whether this list of names is complete. Perhaps it leaves out some names. For example, verse 6 may mean, ‘Seth lived for 105 years and then he became a father. And one *descendant of Se...
וַ יִּהְיוּ֙ כָּל ־יְמֵ֣י מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח תֵּ֤שַׁע...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
THE WICKEDNESS OF MEN Genesis 5:25; Genesis 6:1 When a son was born to Lamech, he named him Noah, which means “ _Rest._ ”He thought that the boy would grow up to share and alleviate the strain of dai...
In this chapter we have a condensed account of fifteen centuries in human history. The ruin of the race had come through man's belief in the devil's lie. "Ye shall not surely die." The repetition thro...
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. Noah signifies rest. A proper name for him...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
In chapter 5 we have the family of God upon the earth, subject to death, but depositary of the counsels and of the testimony of God. Here we may remark Enoch, who has his portion in heaven, and who be...
AND ALL THE DAYS OF METHUSELAH WERE NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE YEARS, AND HE DIED,.... This was the oldest man that ever lived, no man ever lived to a thousand years: the Jews give this as a reason f...
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. Ver. 27. _And all the days of Methuselah._] He lived longest of any, yet wanted thirty-one years of a thousand. Oec...
1 The genealogie, age, and death of the Patriarchs from Adam vnto Noah. 24 The godlinesse and translation of Enoch. 1 THIS is the [NOTE: 1 Chronicles 1:1.] booke of the generations of Adam: In the d...
THIRD SECTION _Adam and Seth. The Sethites or Macrobii (the long-lived). The living Worship and the Blessing of the Life-renewing in the Line of the Sons of God_ GENESIS 5:1-32 (COMPARE 1 CHRONICLES...
THE FAMILY OF ADAM - THROUGH SETH This chapter is called "the book of the genealogy of Adam" (v.1). However, the line of Cain is omitted and only the line of Seth included. The reason for this is indi...
25-32 Methuselah signifies, 'he dies, there is a dart,' 'a sending forth,' namely, of the deluge, which came the year that Methuselah died. He lived 969 years, the longest that any man ever lived on...
This was the longest time that any man lived. But it is observable that neither his nor any of the patriarch's lives reached to a thousand years, which number hath some shadow of perfection. HE DIED b...
Genesis 5:27 days H3117 Methuselah H4968 nine H8672 hundred H3967 H8141 sixty-nine H8346 H8672 years H8141 died...
‘When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eigh...
CONTENTS: Generations from Adam to Noah. CHARACTERS: Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuseleh, Lamech, Noah. CONCLUSION: By man came death. In Adam all die. In Christ shall all...
Genesis 5:1. _The book of generations;_ the princely line of holy patriarchs, from whom the Messiah descended. Genesis 5:4. _And begat sons and daughters;_ but not being primogenitors of the promised...
_And all the days of Methuselah_ THE LONGEST LIFE AND ITS LESSONS In dwelling upon this text I shall-- I. Take a simple survey of the age and manners of the antediluvian world. The youth of the wor...
_This is the book of the generations of Adam_ DISTINGUISHED MEN I. SOME MEN ARE RENDERED DISTINGUISHED BY THE PECULIARITY OF THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVE. Adam; the first human being to (1) inhabit...
CRITICAL NOTES.—Notwithstanding the measure of difficulty standing in the way of ascertaining the meaning of the proper names of Scripture, the subject cannot be wisely neglected: what we do know is e...
§ 3. THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM (CH. 5:1-6:8) EXPOSITION The present section carries forward the inspired narrative another stage, in which the onward progress or development of the human race is traced...
Now chapter five, This is the book of the generations of Adam. [And as you read these generations of Adam and as it lists them for us] In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he h...
A.M. 1656. B.C. 2348. he died. See Genesis 5:5...