Genesis 5:27
Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
In Context
26After Lamech was born, Methuselah lived another 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
28When Lamech was 182, he had a son.
Cross References
Genesis 9:29Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
2 Samuel 19:32Barzillai was very old, eighty years of age, and because he was a very wealthy man, he had provided the king with food while he was staying in Mahanaim.
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 →