John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
Genesis 5:12
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. Here the Septuagint version adds an hundred years, as before.
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. Here the Septuagint version adds an hundred years, as before.
- 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 mahelal'ēl, Mahalalel, “prais...
III. THE BOOK OF THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM CHAPTER 5 Adam and His Seed Through Seth _ 1. Adam (Genesis 5:1)_ 2. Seth (Genesis 5:6) 3. Enos (Genesis 5:9) 4. Cainan ...
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 catalogu...
MAHALALEEL. praise of God....
_Mahalalel_ As a Hebrew name this would mean "the praise of God"; but see note on the etymology of proper names in prehistoric times, Genesis 4:17. For Mahalalel the versions give a different form. LX...
3. _The Generations of Adam from Seth to Enoch_ (Genesis 5:1-20). _1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. 2 In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female...
_AND CAINAN LIVED SEVENTY YEARS, AND BEGAT MAHALALEEL:_ Mahalaleel - praise of God....
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 account...
We do not know whether this list of names is complete. Perhaps it leaves out some names. For example, verse 6 may mean, ‘Seth lived for 105 years and then he became a father. And one *descendant of Se...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 5 ADAM’S FAMILY V1 These are Adam’s *descendants. When God created man, he made man similar to God. V2 He created them as man and woman. He promis...
וַֽ יְחִ֥י קֵינָ֖ן שִׁבְעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַ יֹּ֖
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
POSTERITY OF ADAM Genesis 5:1 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 the Sethi...
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 thro...
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 to...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
In chapter 5 we have the family of God upon the earth, subject to death, but depositary of the counsels and of the testimony of God. Here we may remark Enoch, who has his portion in heaven, and who be...
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: Ver. 12. _And begat Mahalaleel,_] i.e., _Praised be God_; a good name; imminding him of a good duty. God is to be incessantly praised for his exc...
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 concerning...
1 The genealogie, age, and death of the Patriarchs from Adam vnto Noah. 24 The godlinesse and translation of Enoch. 1 THIS is the [NOTE: 1 Chronicles 1:1.] booke of the generations of Adam: In the d...
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel....
From Enos to Jared...
THIRD SECTION _Adam and Seth. The Sethites or Macrobii (the long-lived). The living Worship and the Blessing of the Life-renewing in the Line of the Sons of God_ GENESIS 5:1-32 (COMPARE 1 CHRONICLES...
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 indi...
MAHALALEEL: _ Gr._ Maleleel...
6-20 Concerning each of these, except Enoch, it is said, "and he died." It is well to observe the deaths of others. They all lived very long; not one of them died till he had seen almost eight hundre...
_ 3609_ No notes from Poole on this verse....
Genesis 5:12 Cainan H7018 lived H2421 (H8799) seventy H7657 years H8141 begot H3205 (H8686) Mahalalel H4111 Mah
‘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 eigh...
CONTENTS: Generations from Adam to Noah. CHARACTERS: Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuseleh, Lamech, Noah. CONCLUSION: By man came death. In Adam all die. In Christ shall all...
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 promised...
_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) inhabit...
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 is e...
§ 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 race is traced...
Now chapter five, This is the book of the generations of Adam. [And as you read these generations of Adam and as it lists them for us] In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he h...
A.M. 395. B.C. 3609. Mahalaleel. Gr. Maleleel. Luke 3:37...