Genesis 5:21-32 NIV

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 5:21

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah. Here the Septuagint version adds again an hundred years; and that Enoch had a son, whose name was Methuselah, is affirmed by Eupolemus F18 Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 17. p. 419. , an Heathen writer; and Enoch being a prophet gave him this name under a spirit of prophecy, foretelling by it when the flood should be; for his name, according to Bochart F19 Thaleg. l. 2. c. 13. Colossians 88 . so Ainsworth. ,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:22

And Enoch walked with God, after he begat Methuselah, three hundred years ,.... The Greek version is two hundred. He had walked with God undoubtedly before, but perhaps after this time more closely and constantly: and this is observed to denote, that he continued so to do all the days of his life, notwithstanding the apostasy which began in the days of his father, and increased in his. He walked in the name and fear of God, according to his will, in all the commandments and ordinances of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:23

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. A year of years, living as many years as there are days in a year; not half the age of the rest of the patriarchs: our poet F20 Milton's Paradise Lost, B. 11. l. 665. calls him one of middle age; though his being taken away in the midst of his days was not a token of divine displeasure, but of favour, as follows; see Psalm 55:23 . read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:25

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:26

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:27

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

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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:27

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