Genesis 5:22
He had a close relationship with God. After Methuselah was born, Enoch lived another 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
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In Context
21When Enoch was 65, he had Methuselah.
23Enoch lived a total of 365 years.
Cross References
Genesis 5:24Enoch had such a close relationship with God that he didn't die, he just wasn't there anymore, because God took him.
Genesis 17:1When Abram was 99, the Lord appeared to him and told him, “I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and don't do wrong.
Genesis 48:15He blessed Joseph, saying, “May the God my grandfather Abraham and my father worshiped—the God who has taken care of me like a shepherd throughout my life until now,
Leviticus 26:12I shall always be right there with you. I will be your God, and you will be my people.
Deuteronomy 13:4You are to follow the Lord your God and respect him. Keep his commandments and do what he says; worship him and hold onto him.
1 Kings 2:4If so, then the Lord will keep his promise to me when he said: ‘If your descendants are to live right before me, faithfully and with complete commitment, then you will always have one of them on the throne of Israel.’
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 →