And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
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 righteousness; and when he died blessed his children, and adjured them by the blood of Abel, not to suffer any of theirs to descend from the mountain to the sons of Cain: according to Bishop Usher he died A. M. 1290.
p Elmacinus, & Patricides in ib. p. 234.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 5:17 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 holy patriarchs, more willing to die, than ever they had been to dine.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
am 1290, bc 2714
died: Gen 5:5