And Methuselah lived an hundred and eighty and seven years, and beget Lamech. The Septuagint version is an hundred and sixty seven; the Samaritan only sixty seven; the same names were given to some of the posterity of Seth as were to those of Cain, as Lamech here, and Enoch before. read more
And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred eighty and two years ,.... The Greek version is eight hundred and two years, and so makes the sum total of his life the same; but the Samaritan version only six hundred and fifty three, and so makes his whole life but seven hundred and twenty; and thus, instead of being the oldest, he is made the youngest of the antediluvian patriarchs, excepting his father Enoch: and begat sons and daughters ; some, it is highly probable, before... read more
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years, and he died ,.... This was the oldest man that ever lived, no man ever lived to a thousand years: the Jews give this as a reason for it, because a thousand years is God's day, according to Psalm 90:4 and no man is suffered to arrive to that. His name carried in it a prediction of the time of the flood, which was to be quickly after his death, as has been observed; see Gill on Genesis 5:21 . Some say he died in the... read more
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat son. According to the Septuagint version he was an hundred and eighty eight years old; but according to the Samaritan version only fifty three; the name, of his son, begotten by him, is given in the next verse, with the reason of it. read more
And he called his name Noah ,.... Which signifies rest and comfort; for rest gives comfort, and comfort flows from rest, see 2 Samuel 14:17 , where a word from the same root is rendered "comfortable", and agrees with the reason of the name, as follows: saying, this same shall comfort us, concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground, which the Lord hath cursed ; this he spake by a spirit of prophecy, foreseeing what his son would be, and of what advantage to him and... read more
And Lamech lived, after he begat Noah, five hundred ninety and five years ,.... The Septuagint version is five hundred and sixty five; and the Samaritan version six hundred: and begat sons and daughters ; of which we have no account. read more
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years, and he died. According to the Greek version, he lived but seven hundred and fifty three; and according to the Samaritan version, only six hundred and fifty three: but it is best and safest in these, and all the above numbers, to follow the original Hebrew, and the numbers in that, with which the Targum of Onkelos exactly agrees, written about the time of Christ; and these numbers were just the same when the two Talmuds... read more
And Noah was five hundred years old ,.... Or "the son of five hundred years" F6 בן חמש מאות שנה "filius quingentorum annorum", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; he was in his five hundredth year: it can hardly be thought that he should live to this time a single life, and have no children born to him, which he might have had, but were dead; though some think it was so ordered by Providence, that he should not begin to procreate children until of this age, because it being the will... read more
A recapitulation of the account of the creation of man, Genesis 5:1 , Genesis 5:2 ; and of the birth of Seth, Genesis 5:3 . Genealogy of the ten antediluvian patriarchs, vv. 3-31. Enoch's extraordinary piety, Genesis 5:22 ; his translation to heaven without seeing death, Genesis 5:24 . The birth of Noah, and the reason of his name, Genesis 5:29 ; his age at the birth of Japheth, Genesis 5:32 . read more
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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God ,.... Which is repeated both for the confirmation of it, and for the singularity of it in that corrupt age; and to cause attention to it, and stir up others to imitate him in it, as well as to express the well pleasedness of God therein; for so it is interpreted, "he had this testimony, that he pleased God", Hebrews 11:5 . and he was not ; not that he was dead, or in the state of the dead, as Aben Ezra and Jarchi interpret the phrase following: for God took... read more