Genesis 5:5-14

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:5

He died. Ecclesiasticus xiv. 12, says very justly, the covenant of this world is, he shall surely die. God prolonged the lives of the patriarchs to a more advanced age, that the world might be sooner filled. Their constitution was then more excellent, the fruits of the earth more nourishing, &c. But the sole satisfactory reason for their living almost a thousand years, while we can hardly arrive at 70, is, because so it pleased God, in whose hands are all our lots. There is a great... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 5:1-5

1-5 Adam was made in the image of God; but when fallen he begat a son in his own image, sinful and defiled, frail, wretched, and mortal, like himself. Not only a man like himself, consisting of body and soul, but a sinner like himself. This was the reverse of that Divine likeness in which Adam was made; having lost it, he could not convey it to his seed. Adam lived, in all, 930 years; and then died, according to the sentence passed upon him, "To dust thou shalt return." Though he did not die in... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 5:6-20

6-20 Concerning each of these, except Enoch, it is said, "and he died." It is well to observe the deaths of others. They all lived very long; not one of them died till he had seen almost eight hundred years, and some of them lived much longer; a great while for an immortal soul to be prisoned in a house of clay. The present life surely was not to them such a burden as it commonly is now, else they would have been weary of it. Nor was the future life so clearly revealed then, as it now under the... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Genesis 5:1-16

Gen_5:1 Gen_7:16 . Another section of Genesis starts with Genesis 5.0 , the preface to it being found in verses Gen_5:1 and 2. Herein the unity of the human race is again stressed, for though Adam called his wife's name Isha (Genesis 2: 26) and then Eve ( Gen_3:20 ) God blessed them and called t heir name Adam from the outset. So Eve too was Adam jointly with her husband. This is not surprising, when we remember that the relationship of husband and wife was designed of God as a type of Christ... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Genesis 5:1-8

From Adam to Seth v. 1. This is the book of the generations of Adam. This Chapter presents a short summary of the history of the believing Adamites in the form of a genealogical table, with a few explanatory notes. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him; v. 2. male and female created he them, and called their name Adam in the day when they were created. The author here goes back to the history of the creation, Genesis 1:27-Hosea :. God created man male and... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Genesis 5:9-20

From Enos to Jared v. 9. And Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan. v. 10. And Enos lived after he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters. v. 11. And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years; and he died. Although there is some distant resemblance between some of the names in this list and those of the Cainites, the meaning which is attached to this fact by enemies of Scriptures as though the two accounts had originally been the same is... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Genesis 5:1-32

THIRD SECTIONAdam and Seth.—The Sethites or Macrobii (the long-lived).—The living Worship and the Blessing of the Life-renewing in the Line of the Sons of God Genesis 5:1-32 (compare 1 Chronicles 1:1-4)1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him. 2Male and female created he them; and blessed them and called their name Adam [man] in the day when they were created. 3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 5:1-24

Posterity of Adam Genesis 5:1-24 In contrast to Cain’s line in the previous chapter, we have Seth’s in this. Note the curious similarity in the names, as though the Cainites professed all that the Sethites held, but lacked the reality and power. There have always been these two families in the world, tares and wheat, goats and sheep. This is an old-world cemetery; we walk among old monuments with time-worn inscriptions. Though the Sethites were God-fearers, they were tinged with Adam’s sin. ... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 5:1-32

In this chapter we have a condensed account of fifteen centuries in human history. The ruin of the race had come through man's belief in the devil's lie. "Ye shall not surely die." The repetition throughout the chapter of the sentence, "And he died," indicates the vindication of God against the lie of the devil. The chapter with its account of the ages of these men is of value as it reveals how early history was preserved. Adam was yet alive when Methuselah was born, and Methuselah was yet... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 5:1-32

The History of and Genealogy of Noah (Genesis 5:1 a - Genesis 6:9 ) (TABLET III) This section commences with a list of ten patriarchs from Adam to Noah, and is followed by a passage where God makes a covenant with man after a particularly devastating example of man’s downward slide. As always in Genesis this covenant is the central point around which the passage is built. The passage ends with the colophon ‘these are the histories of Noah’. This mixture of genealogy and history is a... read more

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