Timeline of the Bible · Creation to the Flood
Methuselah
Life · 3317–2349 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah” Genesis 5:21
- “Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years” Genesis 5:26
- “all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years” Genesis 5:27
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
The Years
- Born 3317 BC
- “Mathusalah was born when Enoch his father had lived 65 years [ c. 5. v.”
- Died 2349 BC
- “Mathusalah, the eighth from Adam, died in the 969 year of his age”
He died in the year of the flood (Genesis 5:27; 7:11).
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.
