Genesis 5:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. ”

Genesis 5:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- 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...
Genesis 5:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 5:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: No JFB commentary on these verses.
Genesis 5:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 5:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Genesis 5:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Genesis 5:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Genesis 5:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Genesis 5:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years, and he died. He also is spoken well of by the Arabic writers p as a good governor, a pious man that walked in the way of rig...
Genesis 5:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. Ver. 17. And he died. ] Mors, omnibus finis, multis remedium, quibusdam votum . It was so doubtless to these...
Genesis 5:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Genesis 5:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 5:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Genesis 5:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No notes from Poole on this verse.
Genesis 5:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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...
Genesis 5:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 5:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Genesis 5:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Genesis 5:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

§ 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...
Genesis 5:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

From Enos to Jared
Genesis 5:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A.M. 1290. B.C. 2714. died. See Genesis 5:5

Genesis 5:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 5:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 5:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 5:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 5:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 5:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 5:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 5:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 5:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 5:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 5:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 5:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 5:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 5:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 5:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 5:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 5:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 5:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge