Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Mathusala which he lived, were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died.
LXX2012 (US 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 lived one hundred and eighty and eight years, and begot a son.
Cross References
Genesis 9:29And all the days of Noe were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
2 Samuel 19:32And Berzelli was a very old man, + 19:32 Gr. a son of eighty years. eighty years old; and he had maintained the king when he lived in Manaim; 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 →