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Selected Verse: Genesis 5:26 - Strong Concordance

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Ge 5:26 Strong Concordance And Methuselah [04968] lived [02421] after [0310] he begat [03205] Lamech [03929] seven [07651] hundred [03967] [08141] eighty [08084] and two [08147] years [08141], and begat [03205] sons [01121] and daughters [01323]:
  King James And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Lamech--a different person from the one mentioned in the preceding chapter [Gen 4:18]. Like his namesake, however, he also spoke in numbers on occasion of the birth of Noah--that is, "rest" or "comfort" [Gen 5:29, Margin]. "The allusion is, undoubtedly, to the penal consequences of the fall in earthly toils and sufferings, and to the hope of a Deliverer, excited by the promise made to Eve. That this expectation was founded on a divine communication we infer from the importance attached to it and the confidence of its expression" [PETER SMITH].
 
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29 And he called [07121] his name [08034] Noah [05146], saying [0559], This same shall comfort [05162] us concerning our work [04639] and toil [06093] of our hands [03027], because [04480] of the ground [0127] which the LORD [03068] hath cursed [0779].
18 And unto Enoch [02585] was born [03205] Irad [05897]: and Irad [05897] begat [03205] Mehujael [04232]: and Mehujael [04232] begat [03205] Methusael [04967]: and Methusael [04967] begat [03205] Lamech [03929].