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1 Chronicles 1:3

in 1 Chronicles 1

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

KJV

Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

This verse in 1 Chronicles 1

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Adam, Seth, Enosh

on 1 Chronicles 1:1-4

No book of Scripture opens more abruptly: one word, Adam, and the whole primeval history compressed into ten names from Adam to Noah. The list is Gen 5's chosen line with Cain's line silently omitted, which announces the Chronicler's method: he traces the thread that leads to David.

This site's exposition

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech

Jude 14 calls Enoch the seventh from Adam. Genesis 5:24 records that he walked with God and that God took him. This Lamech is Seth's descendant and Noah's father, a different man from Cain's Lamech in Genesis 4:18 to 24.

The words behind it

3 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • חֲנ֥וֹךְEnoch

    chanokhH2585 →16 times

  • מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַחMethuselah

    metushelachH4968 →

  • לָֽמֶךְ׃Lamech

    lamekhH3929 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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…

    it 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

    it 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…

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Berean Standard Bible, Jude 14; Berean Standard Bible, Genesis 5:21 to 29; Berean Standard Bible, Genesis 4:18 to 24; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).