Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and then he was gone, for God took him.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
In Context
25When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.
Cross References
Genesis 37:30He returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is not there! And I, where can I go?”
2 Kings 2:1So it came about, when Yahweh was going to take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah left with Elisha from Gilgal.
2 Kings 2:12Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!” He saw Elijah no more, and he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.
Matthew 2:18“A voice was heard in Ramah, 1 weeping and great mourning, 1 Rachel weeping for her children, 1 and she refused to be comforted, because they were no more.”
Hebrews 11:5It was by faith that Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death. “He was not found, because God took him.” For before he was taken up, it was testified that he had 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 →