Does the Bible say that Methuselah died before his own father died? And does that mean that...?

Question

Methuselah was not the oldest person in the bible?

There was a question like this earlier, but I'm not sure if it was definitively answered, or perhaps I just missed it.

Did Methuselah's father outlive him? That would make him the oldest person in the Bible, although his father may not have been a character focused on, and therefore Methuselah can still be considered the oldest 'character' in the Bible.

Answer 1

the father of Methuselah was Enoch, who walked with God and when he was 365 years old, God took him.
Methuselah died in the year of the flood.

Answer 2

Methuselah was the oldest RECORDED person in the Bible!
Methuselah lived 969 years and his father Enoch, (Read Genesis 5: 21 to end of chapter.) NEVER died because he was "translated" up to heaven without actually dying, so the joke is that Methuselah was the oldest man and his father outlived him! See?

Answer 3

Methuselah did not die before his father (Enoch). Genesis Chapter 5 verses 21 - 27 explains. Here's the genealogy...
- Adam
- Seth
- Enos
- Canaan
- Mahalaleel
- Jared
- Enoch
- Methuselah

It says that Enoch had Methuselah when he was 300 years old and that he lived 65 more years. Methuselah lived 969 years.

Has nothing to do with your question, but an interesting twist is that Enoch never died. It says "Enoch walked with God and he was not, for god took him". He's only one of two people in the Bible to have never died. For this reason many people believe he is one of the two witnesses mentioned in Revelation. The other is Elijah (II Kings 2). The reason people believe this is because the Bible says "it's appointed unto man once to die" and these two never did.

Answer 4

Question #
1.No.
2.Don't know if he was the "oldest" as I believe there was another person who is said to have lived as long as Methuselah.
3.Methuselah DID outlive Enoch, his father for no flesh dwells in heaven as many assume.

Methuselah as told in the Tanakh is said to have lived to be 969 years. Enoch his father only lived to be 365 years old
Many make the ASSUMPTION that Enoch did not die but the verses written NEVER say that. Read GENESIS 5:22 - 24.
In there it "states" that after 365 years "then" Enoch walked with God. In other "words" he "died." Nowhere is it found that Enoch ever ASCENDED into heaven. One FACT of HEAVEN that many do not look at, IS that it is a "spiritual" realm NOT a "fleshly" realm, for the flesh is "impure......"

Answer 5

I would have to say that since Methuselah was in the lineage of Jesus and was one that God used for such purpose as a righteous man and the Bible said that there were none righteous at the time of the flood that Methuselah more than likely died before the flood. Lamech died before the flood as well, before his father Methuselah died.

Answer 6

Well, Enoch was taken up to Heaven by God so as far as we know he never died but then again the same could be said about Elijah. So technically Enoch is the oldest person alive today unless you consider that Adam went to Heaven after he died and he is alive too.

Genesis 5:21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. 22 Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. 25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered Lamech. 26 Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech 782 years and had other sons and daughters. 27 Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.

Answer 7

Ge 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Ge 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
So in a sense, Enoch never died. But Methuselah was the oldest living man on earth.

Answer 8

Methuselah's father was Enoch, who was sixty-five years old when he fathered Methuselah, then Enoch lived on for three hundred more years. So Enoch, Methuselah's father lived only 365 years while Methuselah lived for 969 years.\\\\\ Maggie E /////, why don't you try READING the Bible. Enoch did not go to heaven. God transferred his life so as not to see death. God took his life from him in a way he did not feel the pangs of death. God's word says that no one has ascended to heaven but he that descended from heaven, that was Jesus. So no one went to heaven before Jesus.

Answer 9

Methuselah's father, Enoch, was taken up to heaven...he never died. He was the first to ascend as this happened in the book of Genesis before the great flood. Yes, it was answered previously...:)))) I actually wrote the entire event in its entirety including the meaning of Methuselah.

Answer 10

Actually scriptures say God took him which means he didnt experience the pangs or pains of death by man, he was so special God took his life at 365yrs because no one was found like him at that time with all the evil in the world then, so he didnt die from the pains of old age or murder. God purposely took him so as not to feel pain still doesnt necessarily mean God took him to heaveyn why? because Jesus said himself at John 3:13 that NO man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of Man..Also Elijah was taken in the windstorm up to or into the heavens (sky) not the spirit realms of heaven more like mid heavens like where the birds fly (Deut 4:17 talks about a bird that flies in heaven) (Matt 6:26 "observe the birds of heaven) any way he was then transferred to a different assignment keep reading 2kings 2:1 because even at a LATER date in 2 chronicles21:12-15, which is 2 books after 1KINGS, Elijah writes King Jehoram of Judah a written letter. he was just transferred to a different assignment in the chariot was all.