Person
Mahalalel
Also: Mahalaleel (KJV)
Mahalalel, son of kenan, in the line of Seth (Genesis 5).
Sort year3609 BC
Tier 4 · Ussher, Annals of the World
Tier 4: Ussher, Annals: 395 AM, 3609 BC (no higher-tier year available).
Scripture
Family
Scripture facts
- Age at son's birth
- 65 (Jared)
- Lifespan
- 895 years
Birth
| Chronology | Date as stated | Year (BC / AM) | Citation & note |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFAH | Not yet established | — | — pending CFAH reference |
| Ussher-Jones | 395 AM Precision: year |
AM 395 | Jones, Chronology of the Old Testament (15th ed., 2002), "Chronological Compendium", p. 1 (opens in a new tab) Jones prints only the AM figure here; no BC year is printed for this birth, so year_bc_ad is left null (not inferred). |
| Ussher | 395 AM, 3609 BC Precision: year |
3609 BC AM 395 |
Ussher, Annals of the World, First Age, §16 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Sets sort year |
| Jordan secondary | "396 - Mahalalel born" Precision: year |
AM 396 | Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2)," Biblical Chronology 6:4 (April 1994), §4 "The Chronology of Genesis 4 & 5" (year list) (opens in a new tab) Printed as 396 on both biblicalhorizons.com and garynorth.com. Straight MT arithmetic gives 395 (Kenan 325 + 70) and Jordan's own next line has Jared born 460 (= 395 + 65), so 396 is probably a misprint; recorded as printed, not corrected. |
| Jordan (compilation) secondary | 395 AM (birth year printed at the start of the mahalalel bar) Precision: year |
AM 395 | Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 1, chart "A.M. Chronology (Anno Mundi “Year of the World”) Genesis 5, 11:10" (opens in a new tab) Matches the Masoretic arithmetic (Kenan 70 + 325); Jordan's own list prints 396. Differs from Jordan's own published figure(s): AM 396. |
| MT-Gen | AM 395 Precision: year |
AM 395 | Gen 5 cumulative begetting ages (father kenan begat at 70, Gen 5:12) (opens in a new tab) |
Disagreements & open questions
- Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 395 (Ussher-Jones, MT-Gen, Ussher, Jordan (compilation)); AM 396 (Jordan).
Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.
Death
| Chronology | Date as stated | Year (BC / AM) | Citation & note |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFAH | Not yet established | — | — pending CFAH reference |
| Ussher-Jones | Not yet established | — | — Not stated in the Jones sources read (Chart No. 1; Chronology of the Old Testament 15th ed. 2002, Chronological Compendium p. 1). Leave empty until verified. |
| Ussher | 1290 AM, 2714 BC Precision: year |
2714 BC AM 1290 |
Ussher, Annals of the World, First Age, §27 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) |
| Jordan secondary | "1290 - Mahalalel died" Precision: year |
AM 1290 | Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2)," Biblical Chronology 6:4 (April 1994), §4 "The Chronology of Genesis 4 & 5" (year list) (opens in a new tab) Also BC 6:10: "he died in the year a.m.1290, which is 366 years before the Flood." |
| Jordan (compilation) secondary | 1290 AM Mahahalel dies @ 895 yrs old Precision: year |
AM 1290 | Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 1, chart "A.M. Chronology (Anno Mundi “Year of the World”) Genesis 5, 11:10" (opens in a new tab) Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 1290. |
| MT-Gen | AM 1290 Precision: year |
AM 1290 | Gen 5: birth AM 395 + 895 years (Gen 5:17) (opens in a new tab) |
Related
Free sources
- The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — Genesis 5 public-domain
- The Annals of the World, Deduced from the Origin of Time (1658 English edition), Part One: 4004–176 BC (opens in a new tab) public-domain
- The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2) (Biblical Chronology 6:4, April 1994) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- Genesis 5 & 11: Chronological-Theological Reflections (Biblical Chronology 6:10, October 1994) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (A.M. chronology charts and A.M./B.C. table) (opens in a new tab) private-copy
Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.