Person

Methuselah

also known as Mathusala

Gender:: Male
Born:: 3317 BC
Died:: 2348 BC
Verse mentions:: 7

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).

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Parents 1

Enoch

Children 1

Lamech· father

Member of 1

Genealogy of Jesus

Events 4

Birth of Lamech Birth of Methuselah Death of Methuselah Lifetime of Methuselah

Appears in 7

Reference	Verse
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,
Luke 3:37	Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,

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