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

“ And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. ”

Genesis 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5. And he died. This clause, which records the death of each patriarch, is by no means superfluous. For it warns us that death was not in vain denounced against men; and that we are now expos...
Genesis 5:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Genesis 5:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And all the days—were nine hundred and thirty years— Nothing is more remarkable than the longevity of those who lived before the flood: a matter which has exercised the thoughts and employed the pe...
Genesis 5:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. All the days that Adam lived. What vicissitudes must the personal history of Adam have comprised! What a mome...
Genesis 5:5 - 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 5:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years. — The numbers in the Bible are involved in great difficulty, owing to the Hebrew method of numeration being to attach numerical values t...
Genesis 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years ,.... Not lunar years, as Varro d, but solar years, which consisted of three hundred and sixty five days and odd hours, and such w...
Genesis 5:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. Ver. 5. Nine hundred and thirty years. ] Till the fifty-sixth year of the patriarch Lamech. In all which time he d...
Genesis 5:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

All the days of Adam were nine hundred and thirty years The long lives of men in ancient times, here recorded, are also mentioned by heathen authors. And it was wisely so ordered, both for the grea...
Genesis 5:5 - 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 5:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genealogies. B. C. 3852. 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that G...
Genesis 5:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The long lives of men in ancient times, here noted, are also mentioned by heathen authors; and it was wisely so ordered by God, both for the more plentiful increase of mankind in the first age of the...
Genesis 5:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The History of and Genealogy of Noah ( Genesis 5:1 a - Genesis 6:9 ) (TABLET III) This section commences with a list of ten patriarchs from Adam to Noah, and is followed by a passage where God m...
Genesis 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

From Adam to Seth
Genesis 5:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A.M. 930. B.C. 3074. nine. Genesis 5:8 Genesis 5:11 Genesis 5:14 Genesis 5:17 #ff. Deuteronomy 30:20 Psalms 90:10 and he died. Genesis 5:8 Genesis 5:11 Genesis 5:14 #ff. Genesis 3:...
Genesis 5:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In the day Adam ate forbidden fruit, he became mortal, he began to die; his whole life after was but a forfeited condemned life, nay it was a wasting dying life; he was not only like a criminal sen...

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

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

Genesis 5:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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

Genesis 5:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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

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

Genesis 5:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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

Genesis 5:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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

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

Genesis 5:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis 5:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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

Genesis 5:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 5:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

Genesis 5:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 5:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes