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Methuselah
Name means: either "man of the dart (javelin)" or "at his death there
will be peace" - For the significance of this meaning, see below.
Parents: Enoch and unnamed wife
Wife: Not named
Children: Lamech, others
Found in: Genesis 5:21-27, 1 Chronicles 1:3; Luke 3:37
Methuselah is mentioned only in the genealogical lists of Genesis 5, 1
Chronicles 1 and Luke 3. He is known most for being the person who is
recorded as having lived the longest (969 years), and as being the
grandfather of Noah. Although the numbers in Genesis 5 have variants
in ancient manuscripts, as recorded in most modern Christian Bibles,
his year of death corresponds with the year of the flood (he had
Lamech at age 187, Noah was born when Methuselah was 369, and when
Noah was 600 (Genesis 7:11 - Methuselah would have been 969, his age
at death), the flood came. Through the judgement of the flood, peace
and temporary reconciliation (reconciliation with humanity was only
fully realized at the cross of Yeshua the Messiah - Jesus the Christ)
came to both humanity and the rest of the created world. Whether
Methuselah died before the flood or in the flood we are not told. And
Lamech, Noah's father and Methuselah's son, apparently died a few
years before the flood, though as mentioned above, there are variants
in the ancient texts when it comes to the numbers in Genesis 5.
Genesis 5:27 - And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
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