25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
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And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-27)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 forth , namely, of the deluge, which came the very year that Methuselah died. If indeed his name was so intended and so explained, it was fair warning to a careless world, a long time before the judgm…
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