SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:27
Fueron, pues, todos los días de Matusalén, novecientos sesenta y nueve años; y murió.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:27
Verse 27. 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. Though life is uncertain, precarious, and full of natural evils, yet it is a blessing in all its periods if devoted to the glory of God and the interest of the soul; for while it lasts we may more and more acquaint ourselves with God and be at peace, and thereby good shall come unto us; Job xxii. 21.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 25-32 - Methuselah signifies, `he dies, there is a dart,' `a sending forth, namely, of the deluge, which came the year that Methuselah died. He lived 969 years, the longest that any man ever lived on earth; but the longest liver must die at last. Noah signifies rest; his parents gav him that name, with a prospect of his being a great blessing to his generation. Observe his father's complaint of the calamitous state of human life, by the entrance of sin, and the curse of sin. Our whol life is spent in labour, and our time filled up with continual toil God having cursed the ground, it is as much as some can do, with the utmost care and pains, to get a hard livelihood out comfort us." I signifies not only that desire and expectation which parents generall have about their children, that they will be comforts to them an helpers, though they often prove otherwise; but it signifies also prospect of something more. Is Christ ours? Is heaven ours? We nee better comforters under our toil and sorrow, than the dearest relation and the most promising offspring; may we seek and find comforts in Christ __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויהיו 1961 כל 3605 ימי 3117 מתושׁלח 4968 תשׁע 8672 ושׁשׁים 8346 שׁנה 8141 ותשׁע 8672 מאות 3967 שׁנה 8141 וימת׃ 4191
