Genesis 5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 5

Chapter 5 This chapter is the only authentic history extant of the first age of the world from the creation to the flood, containing (according to the verity of the Hebrew text) 1656 years, as may easily be computed by the ages of the patriarchs, before they begat that son through whom the line went down to Noah. This is one of those which the apostle calls ?endless genealogies? (1 Tim. 1:4), for Christ, who was the end of the Old-Testament law, was also the end of the Old-Testament... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 5:1-5

I. His creation, Gen. 5:1, 2, where we have a brief rehearsal of what was before at large related concerning the creation of man. This is what we have need frequently to hear of and carefully to acquaint ourselves with. Observe here, 1. That God created man. Man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master; but the Author of his being must be the director of his motions and the centre of them. 2. That there was a day in which God created man. He was not from eternity, but of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 5:6-20

We have here all that the Holy Ghost thought fit to leave upon record concerning five of the patriarchs before the flood, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, and Jared. There is nothing observable concerning any of these particularly, though we have reason to think they were men of eminence, both for prudence and piety, in their day: but in general, I. Observe how largely and expressly their generations are recorded. This matter, one would think, might have been delivered in fewer words; but it is... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 5:21-24

The accounts here run on for several generations without any thing remarkable, or any variation but of the names and numbers; but at length there comes in one that must not be passed over so, of whom special notice must be taken, and that is Enoch, the seventh from Adam: the rest, we may suppose, did virtuously, but he excelled them all, and was the brightest star of the patriarchal age. It is but little that is recorded concerning him; but this little is enough to make his name great, greater... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 5:25-27

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 very year that Methuselah died. If indeed his name was so intended and so explained, it was fair warning to a careless world, a long time before the judgment came. However, this is observable, that the longest liver that ever was carried death in his... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 5:28-32

Here we have the first mention of Noah, of whom we shall read much in the following chapters. Observe, I. His name, with the reason of it: Noah signifies rest; his parents gave him that name, with a prospect of his being a more than ordinary blessing to his generation: This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. Here is, 1. Lamech's complaint of the calamitous state of human life. By the entrance of sin, and the entail... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 5 This chapter contains a list or catalogue of the posterity of Adam in the line of Seth, down to Noah; it begins with a short account of the creation of Adam, and of his life and death, Genesis 5:1 next of five of the antediluvian patriarchs, their age and death, namely Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Genesis 5:6 then a particular relation of Enoch, his character and translation, Genesis 5:21 then follows an account of Methuselah, the oldest man, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam ,.... An account of persons born of him, or who descended from him by generation in the line of Seth, down to Noah, consisting of ten generations; for a genealogy of all his descendants is not here given, not of those in the line of Cain, nor of the collateral branches in the line of Seth, only of those that descended one from another in a direct line to Noah: in the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him ; this is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:2

Male and female created he them ,.... Adam and Eve, the one a male, the other a female; and but one male and one female, to show that one man and one woman only were to be joined together in marriage, and live as man and wife for the procreation of posterity; and these were not made together, but first the male, and then the female out of him, though both in one day: and blessed them ; with a power of propagating their species, and multiplying it, and with all other blessings of nature... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:3

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years ,.... The Septuagint version, through mistaken, gives the number two hundred and thirty years: and begat a son ; not that he had no other children during this time than Cain and Abel; this is only observed to show how old he was when Seth was born, the son here meant; who was begotten in his own likeness, after his image ; not in the likeness, and after the image of God, in which Adam was created; for having sinned, he lost that image, at... read more

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