And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years, and he died. The name of this patriarch signifies “descending”; and, according to the Arabic writers q, he had his name from the posterity of Seth, descending from the holy mountain in his time; for upon a noise being heard on the mountain, about an hundred men went down to the sons of Cain, contrary to the prohibition and dehortation of Jared, and mixed themselves with the daughters of Cain, which brought on the apostasy: when Jared was near his end, he called to him Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, and their children, and said unto them, ye know what some have done, that they have gone down from the mountain, and have had conversation with the daughters of Cain, and have defiled themselves; take you care of your purity, and do not descend from the holy mountain; after which he blessed them, and having appointed Enoch his successor, he died the twelfth of Adar, answering to February, A. M. 1922: according to the Samaritan version, he lived only eight hundred and forty seven years: he died, according to Bishop Usher, A. M. 1422.
q Elmacinus, & Patricides in ib. p. 235.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
Ver. 20. Nine hundred sixty and two years. ] Rabbi Livi citing Genebrardus, the longevity of the patriachs was the work of providence, not the result of nature. Rabbi Levi, citante Genebrardo, longevitatem patriarcharum opus providentiae, non natarae appellat a Their children also, that they waited so long for, were not more the issue of their bodies, than of their faith.
a Genebr., Chron .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
he died: Gen 5:5
Reciprocal: Gen 9:29 – nine