Genesis 5:24
And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
In Context
23And all the days of Henoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
25And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech.
Cross References
Genesis 37:30And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear and whither shall I go?
2 Kings 2:1And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elias into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elias and Eliseus were going from Galgal.
2 Kings 2:12And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces.
Matthew 2:18A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Hebrews 11:5By faith Henoch was translated, that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:22-25
Translation of Enoch. ( b. c. 3017.) 21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. The accounts here run on for several generations without any thing remarkable, or any variation but of the names and numbers; but at length there comes in one that must not be… Read the whole commentary →