Genesis 5

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 5:1

Genesis 5:1. The book of the generation— See note on Genesis 2:4, Sepher ספר rendered book, signifies any particular relation, recital, or account; a register, catalogue, or epistle. Here, therefore, the book of the generations means, "an account, or recital, of the posterity of Adam." So Matthew 1:1. βιβλος γενεσεως, the book of the generation, implies, "an account of those from whom Christ, the second Adam, came." The succession is derived down only in a right line to Noah, because that alone... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 5:2

Genesis 5:2. Called their name Adam— i.e.. Man. "He called both male and female man," says Mr. Locke, "the common name of both sexes: so homo is used in the Latin." read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 5:3

Genesis 5:3. Lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son, &c.— As the whole beginning of this chapter is a recapitulation only to introduce an account of the descendants of Adam by Seth, we can conclude nothing respecting any other children of Adam, though there seems no reason to doubt that he had several, who are not mentioned: and probably the words, he begat sons and daughters, at the end of the fourth verse, may refer as well to the children born before as after the period there... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 5:5

Genesis 5:5. And all the days—were nine hundred and thirty years— Nothing is more remarkable than the longevity of those who lived before the flood: a matter which has exercised the thoughts and employed the pens of many: some wholly denying the fact, and insisting that not solar, but lunar years are meant; an absurdity which carries its own conviction, because thus the lives of this first generation would scarcely equal ours, while they must have themselves begotten children at the age of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 5:24

Genesis 5:24. Enoch walked with God— This is fully explained by what is said of Noah in the 9th verse of the next chapter. See also ch. Genesis 17:1. To walk with or before God, signifies "to live, as if always in his presence." And he was not— He ceased to appear among men: for God took him to heaven, as he afterwards did Elijah. See 2 Kings 2:3. So we read, Hebrews 11:5. By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death: and was not found, because God had translated him: for before... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 5:29

Genesis 5:29. Called his name Noah, saying, this same shall comfort, &c.— Noah (נה) the proper name is derived from the verb we render comfort, and consequently implies consolation: and the following words, concerning our work and toil of our hands, &c. seem to affix this consolation to corporal labour, respecting the productions of the earth. But we know so little of the state of the antediluvian earth, and the degree of toil consequent upon the original curse, that it is impossible to... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 5:32

Genesis 5:32. Shem, Ham, and Japheth— Japheth was the elder born, Ham the second, and Shem the youngest, as appears from chap. 10: and from 1 Chronicles 1 : &c. But it is easy to see the reason why Shem is placed first, to whom probably the right of primogeniture was transferred, and from whom came the Messiah. But it is not so easy to see the reason why Ham is mentioned before Japheth: probably it may be, because the posterity of Ham are more distinctly treated of in the following history,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 5

CHAPTER 5 :-. GENEALOGY OF THE PATRIARCHS. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 5:1

1. book of the generations—(See Genesis 11:4). Adam—used here either as the name of the first man, or of the human race generally. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 5:5

5. all the days . . . Adam lived—The most striking feature in this catalogue is the longevity of Adam and his immediate descendants. Ten are enumerated ( :-) in direct succession whose lives far exceed the ordinary limits with which we are familiar—the shortest being three hundred sixty-five, [Genesis 5:23] and the longest nine hundred sixty-nine years [Genesis 5:23- :]. It is useless to inquire whether and what secondary causes may have contributed to this protracted longevity—vigorous... read more

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