Genesis 5:27
So al the dayes of Methushelah were nine hundreth sixtie and nine yeeres: and he died.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
In Context
28Then Lamech liued an hundreth eightie and two yeeres, and begate a sonne,
Cross References
Genesis 9:29So all the dayes of Noah were nine hundreth and fiftie yeeres: and he died.
2 Samuel 19:32Nowe Barzillai was a very aged man, euen fourescore yeere olde, and he had prouided the king of sustenance, while he lay at Mahanaim: for he was a man of very great substance.
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 →