Enoch
Before Israel Antediluvian · Creation & Patriarchs · Old Testament
- Also called
- Henoch
- Name means
- Dedicated
- Role
- Man who walked with God and was taken up
- When
- Before the Flood
What they did
Walked with God for three hundred years after Methuselah was born, and then 'he was not; for God took him' without seeing death. Jude records that he prophesied of the Lord's coming.
Why it matters: the purpose of their role
He is an example of faith that pleases God (Hebrews 11:5) and a sign that fellowship with God is stronger than death.
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Genesis 5:24 (KJV)
Bible references
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Genesis 5:18-24 (KJV)
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. Hebrews 11:5 (KJV)
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, Jude 1:14 (KJV)
Family
- Father
- Jared
- Children
- Methuselah, and other sons and daughters
Seventh from Adam in the line of Seth (Jude 1:14); not the same as Cain's son Enoch.