Longevity

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningGenesis 6:3Exodus 20:121 Kings 3:11–14Job 5:26Psalms 21:4Psalms 34:11–13Psalms 90:10Psalms 91:16Proverbs 3:1Proverbs 3:2Proverbs 3:16Proverbs 9:11Proverbs 10:27Isaiah 65:201 Peter 3:101 Peter 3:11
• See Old Age
• INSTANCES OF
• Adam, nine-hundred and thirty yearsGenesis 5:5
• Seth, nine-hundred and twelve yearsGenesis 5:8
• Enos, nine-hundred and five yearsGenesis 5:11
• Cainan, nine-hundred and ten yearsGenesis 5:14
• Mahalaleel, eight-hundred and ninety-five yearsGenesis 5:17
• Jared, nine-hundred and sixty-two yearsGenesis 5:20
• Enoch, three-hundred and sixty-five yearsGenesis 5:23
• Methuselah, nine-hundred and sixty-nine yearsGenesis 5:27
• Lamech, seven-hundred and seventy-seven yearsGenesis 5:31

The passages, in Bible order (61)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 5:5

   So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 5:51 voice

   “Since we cannot obtain satisfactory evidence on these points, it is wise to resolve the fact into the sovereign will of God. We can, however, trace some of the important uses to which, in the early economy of Providence, it was subservient. It was the chief means of reserving a knowledge of God, of the great truths of religion, as well as the influence of genuine piety.

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2. Genesis 5:8

   So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 5:81 voice

   “The present life surely was not to them such a burden as commonly it is now, else they would have been weary of it; nor was the future life so clearly revealed then as it is now under the gospel, else they would have been impatient to remove to it: long life to the pious patriarchs was a blessing and made them blessings.

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3. Genesis 5:11

   So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 5:111 voice

   “For it is the mark of a wise man to separate oneself from the pleasures of the flesh, to elevate the soul, and to withdraw from the body; for this is truly to recognize oneself as a human being. He who is called Enos in the Chaldean language is called, in Latin, homo.

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4. Genesis 5:14

   So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

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5. Genesis 5:17

   So Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.

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6. Genesis 5:20

   So Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.

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7. Genesis 5:23

   So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 5:232 voices

   “THE three passages of Scripture which I have read are all the authentic information we have concerning Enoch. It would be idle to supplement it with the fictions of ancient commentators. Enoch is called the seventh from Adam, to distinguish him from the other Enoch of the line of Cain, who was the third from Adam. In the first Patriarchs God was pleased to manifest to men portions of His Truth in reference to true religion.

   “And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. A year of years, living as many years as there are days in a year; not half the age of the rest of the patriarchs: our poet (t) calls him one of middle age; though his being taken away in the midst of his days was not a token of divine displeasure, but of favour, as follows; see Psa 55:23. (t) Milton's Paradise Lost, B. 11. l. 665.

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8. Genesis 5:27

   So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 5:272 voices

   “And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years, and he died,.... This was the oldest man that ever lived, no man ever lived to a thousand years: the Jews give this as a reason for it, because a thousand years is God's day, according to Psa 90:4 and no man is suffered to arrive to that.

   “The days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years - This is the longest life mentioned in Scripture, and probably the longest ever lived; but we have not authority to say positively that it was the longest. Before the flood, and before artificial refinements were much known and cultivated, the life of man was greatly protracted, and yet of him who lived within thirty-one years of a thousand it is said he died; and the longest life is but as a moment when it is past.

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9. Genesis 5:31

   So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 5:311 voice

   “And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years, and he died. According to the Greek version, he lived but seven hundred and fifty three; and according to the Samaritan version, only six hundred and fifty three: but it is best and safest in these, and all the above numbers, to follow the original Hebrew, and the numbers in that, with which the Targum of Onkelos exactly agrees, written about the time of Christ; and these numbers were just the same when the two Talmuds were composed.

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10. Genesis 6:3

    So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

    ›Commentary on Genesis 6:32 voices

    “And for a very long while wickedness extended and spread, and reached and laid hold upon the whole race of mankind, until a very small seed of righteousness remained among them: and illicit unions took place upon the earth, since angels were united with the daughters of the race of mankind; and they bore to them sons who for their exceeding greatness were called giants.

    “My spirit shall not always strive - It is only by the influence of the Spirit of God that the carnal mind can be subdued and destroyed; but those who wilfully resist and grieve that Spirit must be ultimately left to the hardness and blindness of their own hearts, if they do not repent and turn to God. God delights in mercy, and therefore a gracious warning is given.

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11. Genesis 9:29

    So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

    ›Commentary on Genesis 9:291 voice

    “(Verse 29.) And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years. Behold, after the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years. From which it is clear that one hundred and twenty years were given to that generation, as we have said before, for repentance, and not for the establishment of mortal life.

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12. Genesis 11:10

    This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

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    “That nothing is left upon record concerning those of this line, but their names and ages; the Holy Ghost seeming to hasten thro' them to the story of Abraham. How little do we know of those that are gone before us in this world, even those that lived in the same places where we live! Or indeed of those who are our contemporaries, but in distant places.

    “These are the generations of Shem,.... Or a genealogy of the posterity of Shem; not of all of them, only of those of the line which led to Abraham, by which might appear the true line in which the Messiah from Adam through Abraham sprung: Shem was one hundred years old, and begat Arphexad two years after the flood; by which it is pretty plain that he was younger than Japheth; See Gill on Gen 10:21 of Arphaxad his son; see Gill on Gen 10:22.

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13. Genesis 11:11

    And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

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14. Genesis 11:12

    When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.

    ›Commentary on Genesis 11:122 voices

    “And Arphaxad lived thirty five years, and begat Salah. Arphaxad is the first on record that had a son born to him so early; of Salah; see Gill on Gen 10:24.

    “And Arphaxad lived - The Septuagint bring in here a second Cainan, with an addition of one hundred and thirty years. St. Luke follows the Septuagint, and brings in the same person in the same way. But the Hebrew text, both here and in 1 Chronicles 1:1-28, is perfectly silent on this subject, and the best chronologists have agreed in rejecting this as a spurious generation.

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15. Genesis 11:13

    And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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16. Genesis 11:14

    When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.

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