Genesis 5:24
And Enoch habitually walks with God, and he is not, for God has taken him.
Literal Standard Version
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 Enoch are three hundred and sixty-five years.
25And Methuselah lives one hundred and eighty-seven years, and begets Lamech.
Cross References
Genesis 37:30and he returns to his brothers and says, “The boy is not, and I—to where am I going?”
2 Kings 2:1And it comes to pass, at YHWH’s taking up Elijah to the heavens in a whirlwind, that Elijah goes, and Elisha, from Gilgal,
2 Kings 2:12And Elisha is seeing, and he is crying, “My father! My father! The chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he has not seen him again; and he takes hold on his garments and tears them into two pieces.
Matthew 2:18“A voice in Ramah was heard—weeping and much mourning—Rachel weeping [for] her children, and she would not be comforted because they are not.”
Hebrews 11:5By faith Enoch was translated—not to see death, and was not found, because God translated him; for before his translation he had been testified to—that he had pleased God well,
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 →