Timeline of the Bible · Creation to the Flood
Lamech
Life · 3130–2353 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech” Genesis 5:25
- “Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years” Genesis 5:30
- “all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years” Genesis 5:31
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
- His Father
- Methuselah
- His Son
- Noah
The Years
- Born 3130 BC
- “was born when his father Mathusalah had lived 187 years, [ c.”
- Died 2353 BC
- “Lamech, the ninth from Adam, died when he had lived 777 years”
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
