LAMECH
–1. Father of Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-Cain Ge 4:18-24 –2. Son of Methuselah, and father of Noah, lived for seven-hundred and seventy-seven years Ge 5:25-31 ; 1Ch 1:3 .Ancestor of Jesus Lu 3:36
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LONGEVITY
–General scriptures concerning Ge 6:3 ; Ex 20:12 ; 1Ki 3:11-14 ; Job 5:26 ; Ps 21:4 ; 34:11-13 ; 90:10 ; 91:16 ; Pr 3:1 , 2 , 16 ; 9:11 ; 10:27 ; Isa 65:20 ; 1Pe 3:10 , 11 –See OLD AGE –INSTANCES OF .Adam, nine-hundred and thirty years Ge 5:5 .Seth, nine-hundred and twelve years Ge 5:8 .Enos, nine-hundred and five years Ge 5:11 .Cainan, nine-hundred and ten years Ge 5:14 .Mahalaleel, eight-hundred and ninety-five years Ge 5:17 .Jared, nine-hundred and sixty-two years Ge 5:20 .Enoch, three-hundred and sixty-five years Ge 5:23 .Methuselah, nine-hundred and sixty-nine years Ge 5:27 .Lamech, seven-hundred and seventy-seven years Ge 5:31 .Noah, nine-hundred and fifty years Ge 9:29 .Shem, six-hundred years Ge 11:10 , 11 .Arphaxad, four-hundred and thirty-eight years Ge 11:12 , 13 .Salah, four-hundred and thirty-three years Ge 11:14 , 15 .Eber, four-hundred and sixty-four years Ge 11:16 , 17 .Peleg, two-hundred and thirty-nine years Ge 11:18 , 19 .Reu, two-hundred and thirty-nine years Ge 11:20 , 21 .Serug, two-hundred and thirty years Ge 11:22 , 23 .Nahor, one-hundred and forty-eight years Ge 11:24 , 25 .Terah, two-hundred and five years Ge 11:32 .Job, “lived one-hundred and forty years” after his ordeal, and then “he died at a very great age,” Job 42:16 , 17 .Sarah, one-hundred and twenty-seven years Ge 23:1 .Abraham, one-hundred and seventy-five years Ge 25:7 .Isaac, one-hundred and eighty years Ge 35:28 .Jacob, one-hundred and forty-seven years Ge 47:28 .Joseph, one-hundred and ten years Ge 50:26 .Amram, one-hundred and thirty-seven years Ex 6:20 .Aaron, one-hundred and twenty-three years Nu 33:39 .Moses, one-hundred and twenty years De 31:2 ; 34:7 .Joshua, one-hundred and ten years Jos 24:29 .Eli, ninety-eight years 1Sa 4:15 .Barzillai, eighty years 2Sa 19:32 .Jehoiada, one-hundred and thirty years 2Ch 24:15 .Anna, older than eighty-four years Lu 2:36 , 37 .Paul, “the aged one” Phm 1 :9