Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
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…
Concerning Methuselah observe, 1. The signification of his name, which some think was prophetical, his father Enoch being a prophet. Methuselah signifies, he dies, or there is a dart, or, a sending…