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Methuselah The Longest Life Recorded in Scripture
About Methuselah
Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, longer than any other man Scripture names. He was the son of Enoch, whom God took, and the grandfather of Noah. On the chronology Genesis gives, his death falls in the year of the flood, so the longest life in the Bible ends exactly where the old world does.
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Methuselah's Character Traits
Methuselah's Life Timeline
Who is linked to Methuselah
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- Methuselahson ofEnochGEN 5:21
- Methuselahfather ofLamechGEN 5:25
Methuselah's Key Relationships
Spiritual Lessons from Methuselah
The Length of a Delay
His name is a byword for old age, but the figure that matters is where it lands. If the years of Genesis 5 are read straight, the man who lived longest died in the year the waters came. A long patience is not the same as no reckoning, and the text lets the two sit in one number.
Key Verses about Methuselah
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