“ And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. ”
- Section V - The Line to Noah - The Line of Sheth 1. ספר s e pher “writing, a writing, a book.” 9. קינן qēynān , Qenan, “possessor, or spearsman.” 12. < מהללאל mah...
Sethite Genealogy of Antediluvians. With the exception of Genesis 5:29 this comes from P, as is clear from the style, each statement being cast in the same mould, and the whole forming a mere catal...
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: No JFB commentary on these verses.
The Descendants of Adam to Noah The purpose of the historian in giving the names and ages of the antediluvian Patriarchs was, no doubt, to show the glorious ancestry of the chosen race, and to acc...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1-32 ; Genesis 6:1-22 ; Genesis 7:1-24 ; Genesis 8:1-22 ; Genesis 9:1-29 THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was t...
Posterity of Adam Genesis 5:1-24 In contrast to Cain's line in the previous chapter, we have Seth's in this. Note the curious similarity in the names, as though the Cainites professed all that...
In this chapter we have a condensed account of fifteen centuries in human history. The ruin of the race had come through man's belief in the devil's lie. "Ye shall not surely die." The repetition thr...
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. In passing hastily over so many verses, and which contains so many ages, in the lives of the patriarchs, we have reason...
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. The Arabic writers o also commend him as a good ruler of his people; and at his death he charged them not to desert the holy...
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. Ver. 14. Nine hundred and ten years. ] A long while to live: sed nemo propter canos et annos, diu vixit .
We have here all that the Holy Ghost thought fit to leave upon record concerning five of the patriarchs before the flood, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, and Jared. There is nothing noticed concernin...
THE FAMILY OF ADAM - THROUGH SETH This chapter is called "the book of the genealogy of Adam" (v.1). However, the line of Cain is omitted and only the line of Seth included. The reason for this is in...
6 And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enos: 7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: 8 And all the days of Seth wer...
No notes from Poole on this verse.
‘When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eig...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Notwithstanding the measure of difficulty standing in the way of ascertaining the meaning of the proper names of Scripture, the subject cannot be wisely neglected: what we do know i...
Genesis 5:1 . The book of generations; the princely line of holy patriarchs, from whom the Messiah descended. Genesis 5:4 . And begat sons and daughters; but not being primogenitors of the pro...
This is the book of the generations of Adam Distinguished men I. SOME MEN ARE RENDERED DISTINGUISHED BY THE PECULIARITY OF THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVE. Adam; the first human being to (1) in...
§ 3. THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM ( CH . 5:1-6:8) EXPOSITION The present section carries forward the inspired narrative another stage, in which the onward progress or development of the human...
From Enos to Jared
A.M. 1235. B.C. 2769. See Genesis 5:5