Genesis 5:26
Methuselah lived 782 years after Lamech was born, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
25When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.
27Methuselah lived 969 years altogether, and then he died.
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 →