Genesis 5:27
And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
In Context
28And Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he had a son:
Cross References
Genesis 9:29all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.
2 Samuel 19:32Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:26-28
25 And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: 26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. Concerning Methuselah observe, 1. The signification of his name, which some think was prophetical, his father Enoch being a prophet. Methuselah signifies, he dies, or there is a dart, or, a sending forth, namely, of the deluge, which came the… Read the whole commentary →