Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth.
Young's Literal Translation
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 liveth an hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth a son,
Cross References
Genesis 9:29and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dieth.
2 Samuel 19:32and Barzillai [is] very aged, a son of eighty years, and he hath sustained the king in his abiding in Mahanaim, for he [is] 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 →