1 Chronicles 1:3 BSB

1 Chronicles 1:3

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.

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ASV

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

KJV

Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

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Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חֲנ֥וֹךְ	cha.Nokh	Enoch	H2585 →
מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח	me.tu.She.lach	Methuselah	H4968 →
לָֽמֶךְ׃	La.mekh	Lamech	H3929 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H2585chanokhEnoch16×

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one…
leads to
- Genesis 5:21–24
  When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
- Jude 1:14
  Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
- 2 Kings 2:11
  As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
- Hebrews 11:6
  And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
Through
Jude 1:14
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
leads to
- Deuteronomy 33:2
  He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
- Psalms 50:3–5
  Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:7–8
  and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels
- Hebrews 11:5–6
  By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one…

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