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).
Person
Methuselah
- Also called
- Mathusala
- Lived
- born c. 3316 BC; died c. 2347 BC
- Belongs to
- Genealogy of Jesus
- Mentioned
- 7 verses · first in Genesis 5:21
Family
About Methuselah
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
On the timeline
- 3316 BCBirth of MethuselahGenesis 5:21
- 3316 BCLifetime of MethuselahGenesis 5:25–27
- 3129 BCBirth of LamechGenesis 5:25
- 2347 BCDeath of MethuselahGenesis 5:27
Every mention
People data: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0). Dates are traditional estimates.