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.

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   “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.

   “And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years,....

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2. Genesis 5:8

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

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   “And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. As his father Adam before him.

   “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.

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   “And all the days or Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

   “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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   “And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. The Arabic writers (o) also commend him as a good ruler of his people; and at his death he charged them not to desert the holy mountain, and join themselves with Cain's posterity; and having appointed Mahalaleel, who they say was his eldest son, his successor, he died on the fourth day of the week, and the thirteenth of the month Cheziran, A. M.

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5. Genesis 5:17

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

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   “And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years, and he died. He also is spoken well of by the Arabic writers (p) as a good governor, a pious man that walked in the way of righteousness; and when he died blessed his children, and adjured them by the blood of Abel, not to suffer any of theirs to descend from the mountain to the sons of Cain: according to Bishop Usher he died A. M. 1290. (p) Elmacinus, & Patricides in ib. p. 234.

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6. Genesis 5:20

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

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   “And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years, and he died.

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7. Genesis 5:23

   So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

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   “And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years, and he walked with God, and he was not, because God took him. It is said most beautifully, that he who had walked with God in this life by obeying His commandments, walked …

   “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.

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   “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. His name carried in it a prediction of the time of the flood, which was to be quickly after his death, as has been observed; see Gill on Gen 5:

   “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.

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   “He was changed, as those saints shall be that will be found alive at Christ's second coming. Methuselah signifies, He dies, there is a sending forth, viz. of the deluge, which came the very year that Methuselah died. If his name was so intended, it was a fair warning to a careless world long before the judgment came.

   “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.”

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    “[Daniel 9:2] "I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years concerning which the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Jeremiah, that seventy years would be accomplished for the desolation of Jerusalem." Jeremiah had predicted seventy years for the desolation of the Temple (Jeremiah 29:1-10), at the end of which the people would again return to Judaea and build the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. But this fact did not render Daniel careless, but rather encouraged him to pray that God might through his supplications fulfil that which He had graciously promised.

    “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.

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11. Genesis 9:29

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

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    “Man must not prejudice his own life by eating that food which is unwholsome, and prejudicial to his health. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat - Blood made atonement for the soul, Lev. xvii, 11. The life of the sacrifice was accepted for the life of the sinner.

    “(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. Shem was one hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood. After the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Scripture hastens, by enumerating the generations of the second age of the world (for the first …

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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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    “And Sem lived after he begot Arfaxat five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. Nowhere in all this series of generations is it added, as in the age before the flood, "and he died"; because there was no one in the whole assemblage of …

    “And Shem lived, after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years,....

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14. Genesis 11:12

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

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    “Moreover, Arfaxat lived thirty-five years and begot Sale. In this place, the Septuagint interpreters added one generation more than the Hebrew truth, stating that Arfaxat was one hundred and thirty-five years old when he begot Cainan, who, when he was one hundred and thirty years …

    “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.

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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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    “And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four hundred and three years,.... In all four hundred and thirty eight; the Vulgate Latin wrongly reads, three hundred and three: and begat sons and daughters; not mentioned by name: he died, as the above Arabic writer (z) says, in the month Nisan, A. M. 2696; and a Jewish writer (a) says he died in the forty eighth year of Isaac, and who also says (b), that in his days they began to build the city of Babel. (z) Apud Ibid. p. 260. (a) R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (Shalshalet, fol.

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16. Genesis 11:14

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

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    “Sale also lived thirty years and begot Heber. The seventy interpreters have it one hundred and thirty.

    “And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber. He had a son born to him five years sooner than his father had; of Eber; see Gill on Gen 10:25.

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