Genesis 5:27

Methuselah lived 969 years. Then he died.

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In The King James Version

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

In Context

26After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters.

28When Lamech had lived 182 years, he became the father of a son.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:29All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.

2 Samuel 19:32Now Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old. He had furnished the king with provisions while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy 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 →

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