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Person

Methuselah

Also called Mathusala

Mentioned in 7 verses across 3 books, first in Genesis 5:21. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 3317 BC · died c. 2348 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Most early-Genesis dates are not historically established: they are reckoned from the ages in the genealogies, and nothing outside the text confirms them.

Group

Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Father

Enoch (father of Methuselah)

Children

Lamech (father of Noah)

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

In the Bible

All 7 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

Genesis 5:21
When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22
And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:25
When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 5:26
And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:27
So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 1:3
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.

Luke

Luke 3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,

Events

Events the dataset lists Methuselah as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 3317 BC
Birth of MethuselahGenesis 5:21
c. 3317 BC
Lifetime of MethuselahGenesis 5:25–27
c. 3130 BC
Birth of LamechGenesis 5:25
c. 2348 BC
Death of MethuselahGenesis 5:27

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

Man of the dart, the son of Enoch, and grandfather of Noah. He was the oldest man of whom we have any record, dying at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years, in the year of the Flood (Gen. 5:21-27; 1 Chr. 1:3).