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Methuselah
Man of the dart, the son of Enoch, and grandfather of Noah. He was the oldest man of whom we have any record, dying at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years, in the year of the Flood (Gen 5:21–27; 1 Chr 1:3).
Named in the Bible
6 verses
- Genesis 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
- Genesis 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
- Genesis 5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
- 1 Chronicles 1:3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
