Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and then he was gone; because God took him.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
In Context
23In total, Enoch lived for three hundred sixty and five years.
25Methuselah lived for a hundred eighty and seven years, and fathered Lamech.
Cross References
Genesis 37:30He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”
Matthew 2:18‘A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and mourning loudly; Rachel, weeping for her children, refusing all comfort for they were dead.’
Hebrews 11:5Faith led to Enoch’s removal from earth, so that he might not experience death. ‘He could not be found because God had removed him.’ For, before his removal, he was renowned as having 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 →