Genesis 5:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

Genesis 5:21 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 3:37
Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,

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Enoch Methuselah

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-24)

The accounts here run on for several generations without any thing remarkable, or any variation but of the names and numbers; but at length there comes in one that must not be passed over so, of whom special notice must be taken, and that is Enoch, the seventh from Adam: the rest, we may suppose, did virtuously, but he excelled them all, and was the brightest star of the patriarchal age. It is but…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. Enoch ... begat Methuselah--This name signifies, “He dieth, and the sending forth,” so that Enoch gave it as prophetical of the flood. It is computed that Methuselah died in the year of that catastrophe.