And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begot sons and daughters:
26. Lamecha different personfrom the one mentioned in the preceding chapter [Ge4:18]. Like his namesake, however, he also spoke in numbers onoccasion of the birth of Noahthat is, “rest” or”comfort” [Ge 5:29,Margin]. “The allusion is, undoubtedly, to the penalconsequences of the fall in earthly toils and sufferings, and to thehope of a Deliverer, excited by the promise made to Eve. That thisexpectation was founded on a divine communication we infer from theimportance attached to it and the confidence of its expression”[PETER SMITH].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred eighty and two years,…. The Greek version is eight hundred and two years, and so makes the sum total of his life the same; but the Samaritan version only six hundred and fifty three, and so makes his whole life but seven hundred and twenty; and thus, instead of being the oldest, he is made the youngest of the antediluvian patriarchs, excepting his father Enoch:
and begat sons and daughters; some, it is highly probable, before he beget Lamech, since then he was near two hundred years of age, as well as others after
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Ver. 26. And Methuselah lived. ] But had the less joy of his longest life, because he lived in the very rust of that iron age; and so felt ultima senescentis mundi deliria , the utmost dotages of that decrepit old world.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
begat sons: Gen 5:4