Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
In Context
28And Lemech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son.
Cross References
Genesis 9:29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.
2 Samuel 19:32(19:33) Now Barzillai was very aged, eighty years old: and he had sustained the king while he lay at Machanayim; 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 →