Commentary for Bava Batra 242:7

ואחיה השילוני ראה את עמרם והא כתיב (במדבר כו, סה) ולא נותר מהם איש כי אם כלב בן יפונה ויהושע בן נון

[the life of] the whole world.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The total length of their respective lives covered the entire period of the life of the human species. ');">²³</span> [For] Methuselah saw Adam; Shem saw Methuselah, Jacob saw Shem; Amram saw Jacob; Ahijah the Shilonite saw Amram; Elijah saw Ahijah the Shilonite, and he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Elijah. ');">²⁴</span> is still alive. And [did] Ahijah the Shilonite see Amram? Surely it is written, And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXVII, 65. since Ahijah saw Amram, whether in Egypt or in the wilderness, he must have been, according to this verse, among those who died in the wilderness. How then could he have been living (cf. I K. XI, 29) in the days of Jeroboam? ');">²⁵</span>

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