Methuselah According to the Hebrew text and the Samaritan version, Methuselah lived the longest of all the patriarchs, and, according to their figures, his death at the age of 969 years occurred in the year of the Flood.
- 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...
LAMECH (powerful)....
_AND METHUSELAH LIVED AN HUNDRED EIGHTY AND SEVEN YEARS, AND BEGAT LAMECH:_ Methuselah - or Methusala (Luke 3:37), the man of the dart (Gesenius) - literally, man of sending, particularly with refere...
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 יְחִ֣י מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח שֶׁ֧בַע וּ שְׁמֹנִ֛ים...
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 METHUSELAH LIVED AN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY AND SEVEN YEARS, AND BEGET LAMECH. The Septuagint version is an hundred and sixty seven; the Samaritan only sixty seven; the same names were given to some of...
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: Ver. 25. _And begat Lamech,_] i.e., Poverty: but yet he was endued with the gift of prophecy. Gen 5:29 He might be “ _Nudus...
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...
FROM ENOCH TO SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH...
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech....
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...
_ 3130_ No notes from Poole on this verse....
Genesis 5:25 Methuselah H4968 lived H2421 (H8799) hundred H3967 H8141 eighty-seven H8084 H7651 years H8141 begot...
‘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...
_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. 874. B.C. 3130. Genesis 4:18...
Methuselah signifies, He dies, there is a sending forth, viz. of the deluge, which came the very year that Methuselah died. If his name was so intended, it was a fair warning to a careless world long...