Genesis 5:24
Enoch had such a close relationship with God that he didn't die, he just wasn't there anymore, because God took him.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
In Context
23Enoch lived a total of 365 years.
25When Methuselah was 187, he had Lamech.
Cross References
Genesis 37:30He returned to his brothers. “The boy's gone!” he moaned. “What am I going to do now?”
2 Kings 2:1Just before the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were walking together on their way from Gilgal.
2 Kings 2:12Elisha saw what happened and cried out, “My father! My father! Look! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” Then Elisha couldn't see him anymore. He took his clothes and ripped them to pieces.
Matthew 2:18“The sound of terrible weeping and mourning was heard in Rama, Rachel crying for her children. They are dead, and she can't be comforted.”
Hebrews 11:5By trusting God Enoch was taken to heaven so he didn't experience death. He couldn't be found on earth because God took him to heaven. Before this happened he was known as someone God was pleased with.
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 →