Genesis 5:6-27

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:6

And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos. Not that this was his firstborn, no doubt but he had other children before this time; but this is only mentioned, because it carried the lineage and descent directly from Adam to Noah, the father of the new world, and from whom the Messiah was to spring; whose genealogy to give is a principal view of this book, or account of generations from Adam to Noah. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:7

And Seth lived, after he begat Enos, eight hundred and seven years ,.... The Septuagint version makes the same mistake in the numbers of Seth as of Adam, giving him two hundred and five years before the birth of Enos, and but seven hundred and seven years after: and begat sons and daughters ; very probably both before and after Enos was born; but how many is not said. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:8

And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. As his father Adam before him. Seth, according to Josephus F12 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 2. sect. 3. , was a very good man, and brought up his children well, who trod in his steps, and who studied the nature of the heavenly bodies; and that the knowledge of these things they had acquired might not be lost, remembering a prophecy of Adam, that the world should be destroyed both by fire and by water, they erected two... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:9

And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan. According to the Septuagint a hundred and ninety years; it can hardly be thought but that he had sons or daughters before, but this is only taken notice of for a reason before given. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:10

And Enos lived, after he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifteen years ,.... The Septuagint version is seven hundred and fifteen; the hundred which is wanting is to be supplied from the preceding verse, which in that version has an hundred too much: and begat sons and daughters ; others besides Enos, as very likely he had before he was born. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:11

And all the days or Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died. According to the Arabic writers F14 Elmacinus, apud Hottinger, p. 231. , this man was a very good man, governed his people well, and instructed them in the ways of righteousness, and the fear of God; and when his end drew nigh, his offspring gathered about him for his blessing; and calling them to him, he ordered them by his will to practise holiness, and exhorted them not to mix with the offspring of Cain the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:12

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. Here the Septuagint version adds an hundred years, as before. read more

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