Genesis 5:24 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 5:24

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

BSB

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ASV

and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

KJV

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

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Commentary

3 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1307: “Enoch” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1876)

THE three passages of Scripture which I have read are all the authentic information we have concerning Enoch. It would be idle to supplement it with the fictions of ancient commentators. Enoch is called the seventh from Adam, to distinguish him from the other Enoch of the line of Cain, who was the third from Adam. In the first Patriarchs God was pleased to manifest to men portions of His Truth in reference to true religion.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

He was changed, as those saints shall be that will be found alive at Christ's second coming. Methuselah signifies, He dies, there is a sending forth, viz. of the deluge, which came the very year that Methuselah died. If his name was so intended, it was a fair warning to a careless world long before the judgment came.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Executing the priest's office is called walking before God, 1 Sam. ii. 30, 35 , and see Zech. iii. Enoch, it should seem, was a priest of the most high God, and like Noah, who is likewise said to walk with God, he was a preacher of righteousness, and prophesied of Christ's second coming.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ	vai.yit.ha.Lekh	and he walked about	H1980 →
חֲנ֖וֹךְ	cha.Nokh	Enoch	H2585 →
אֶת־	'et-	with	H854 →
הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים	ha.'E.lo.Him	<the> God	H430 →
וְאֵינֶ֕נּוּ	ve.'ei.Ne.nu	and not [was] he	H369 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
לָקַ֥ח	la.Kach	he took	H3947 →
אֹת֖וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> him	H853 →
אֱלֹהִֽים׃ פ	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →

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

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Where the connections lead

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.

Through
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
leads to
- Ephesians 5:8
  For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
- Romans 13:12
  The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
- Revelation 1:5
  and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by…
Through
Luke 23:43
And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
leads to
- Revelation 2:7
  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the…
- Psalms 50:15
  Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
- 1 Timothy 1:15–16
  This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
- Luke 19:10
  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- Psalms 32:5
  Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

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