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Methuselah
[People]Methuselah is an antediluvian figure in the genealogy of Genesis 5, the son of Enoch and the grandfather of Noah. Having lived 969 years, he is recorded as the longest-lived person in the Bible.
Tower of Babel
[Bible]The Tower of Babel is an event recorded in Genesis 11:1-9. After Noah's Flood, people who spoke a single language began building a city and a tower on the plain of Shinar, but God confounded their language and scattered them over all the earth.
Javan
[People]Javan was the fourth son of Japheth, the son of Noah, and appears in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10. In the Old Testament his name is also used for the Greek people and their land.
Tubal
[People]Tubal was the fifth son of Japheth, the son of Noah, and appears by name only in the genealogies of Genesis 10 and 1 Chronicles 1. In the prophetic books, Tubal is paired with Meshech as the name of a northern people or region.
Genesis 5
[Bible]Genesis 5 is a genealogy spanning ten generations, from Adam to Noah and his three sons. The same formula recurs throughout, interrupted by separate notes on Enoch, who walked with God, and on the meaning of Noah's name.
2 Peter 2:9
[Bible Verses]A verse in a passage warning against false teachers, stating that the Lord delivers the godly out of temptation and reserves the unjust under punishment until the day of judgment. Because it concludes the examples of Noah and Lot, it is often cited as a comfort in suffering, and it is also mentioned in discussions of the state after death.
Seth
[People]Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve. Born in place of Abel, whom Cain had killed, he stands at the head of the genealogy in Genesis 5 that leads to Noah.
Cubit
[Bible]The cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. In the Bible it gives the dimensions of Noah's ark, the tabernacle, the temple, and other objects. It is generally estimated at roughly 45 cm.
Bitumen
[Bible]Bitumen is a black, sticky, naturally occurring asphalt substance found in the earth. In the Bible it served as a waterproofing agent and adhesive for Noah's ark, the Tower of Babel, and the ark of bulrushes in which the infant Moses was placed.
Epic of Gilgamesh
[History]The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem recounting the quest of Gilgamesh, a king of ancient Mesopotamia, for eternal life. Because its flood story resembles the account of Noah's flood in Genesis, it is frequently discussed in biblical studies.
Genesis 6
[Bible]Genesis 6 is the chapter in which, as human wickedness fills the earth, God resolves to judge the world by a flood and commands Noah, who has found grace, to build an ark. The account of Noah's Flood begins here.
Isaiah 54
[Bible]Isaiah 54 is a prophecy promising restoration to Zion, who has become like a forsaken woman. Drawing on God's oath after Noah's flood, it proclaims an unchanging covenant of peace.
Ezekiel 14
[Bible]Ezekiel 14 rebukes the elders of Israel who come to inquire of the prophet while harboring idols in their hearts. It pronounces judgment on Jerusalem, declaring that even if righteous men such as Noah, Daniel, and Job were present, their righteousness could deliver only their own lives.
1 Peter 3
[Bible]First Peter 3 contains exhortations to wives and husbands, the teaching to repay evil with blessing, instruction on suffering for righteousness' sake and on Christ's substitutionary death, and a passage connecting Noah's ark with baptism.
2 Peter 2
[Bible]2 Peter 2 warns against false teachers who will arise within the church. Citing God's judgment of the angels who sinned, the Flood in Noah's day, and Sodom and Gomorrah, it declares their destruction and likens their greed and licentiousness to the way of Balaam.
Havilah
[Bible]Havilah is both a place name and a personal name in the Old Testament. It first appears as the gold-bearing land encompassed by the Pison, one of the rivers of the Garden of Eden, and the same name also occurs in the genealogy of Noah's descendants.
Jared
[People]Jared is an antediluvian figure who appears in the genealogy of Genesis 5. He was the son of Mahalaleel, the father of Enoch, and the grandfather of Methuselah. Scripture records that he lived 962 years.
Kenan
[People]Kenan was the son of Enosh, Adam's grandson, and the father of Mahalalel. He appears in the antediluvian genealogy of Genesis 5. In Luke's genealogy of Jesus, his name is given as Cainan.
Vineyard
[Bible]A vineyard is a plot of land where grapevines are planted and cultivated. In the Bible it is part of agricultural life, and it frequently serves as a symbol of the people (Israel) whom God tends and from whom He expects fruit.
Genesis 6:1–4
[Bible Verses]A brief and enigmatic passage stating that "the sons of God" took "the daughters of men" as wives and that the Nephilim were on the earth in those days. Since antiquity, interpreters have disagreed over whether the sons of God were angels, descendants of Seth, or kings.