[Adder]

showing him to be the 89th generation

So what does that mean? Literal generations, like each one about 70 years? 6230 years ago?

[Blennos]

showing him to be the 89th generation So what does that mean? Literal generations, like each one about 70 years? 6230 years ago?

Generations are usually computed at 20-25 years. Thus 89 would be 1780 - 2225 years ago. But King David lived at about 1000 BC or about 3000 years ago. Thus the generations are being reckoned at 33 years here.

[Ancesthntr]

“showing him to be the 89th generation

So what does that mean? Literal generations, like each one about 70 years? 6230 years ago?”

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No, that is NOT what is meant. How old was your father when you were born? 25? 30? 35? How old was your grandfather when your father was born? Etc., etc., through the ages. I don’t know the precise number of years in a generation (even population scientists disagree, and there is tremendous variations based on the time period, culture, world events, etc.), but I would venture to say something like 30-33 1/3 years. So 89 generations would be somewhere between 2670 and 2966 years. King David lived about 3,000 years ago, so this is plausible. In my own family, there is a separation of 141 years between my father’s, father’s father (born 1863) and my son (born 2004). 4 generations in 141 years is 35.25 years per generation - so if that pattern continued for 89 generations you’d be at 3,137 years - before King David’s birth.

70 years is the Biblical length of a typical life (once you got past the childhood diseases) free of combat, NOT the length of time between generations.

[higgmeister]

showing him to be the 89th generation

So what does that mean? Literal generations, like each one about 70 years? 6230 years ago?

Actually you don't need to consider a full 70 years as a generation. One generation to another is between the child bearing age of each married couple. It is about ten generations of my family that have been in America. This probably averages out to 30 years between each generation. My great grandfather fought in the Civil War which illustrates much older generations. My father was the youngest son of my grandfather's second wife.