Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
- BSB Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.
- NKJV And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
- NASB Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
- NLT walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.
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Quick answer
Enoch walked with God and then was not, for God took him without dying. It is a striking testimony to faith and a hint of victory over death.
Overview
Enoch's walk with God ends not in the refrain 'and he died' but in God taking him directly. Hebrews 11:5 explains he was taken so as not to see death, by faith. This rare exception to the chapter's drumbeat of death foreshadows the hope of resurrection and translation that believers have in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Heb 11:5–6By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
- 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
- Gen 5:22After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
- Luke 23:43Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
- 2 Kgs 2:11As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
- Gen 42:36Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”
- Jer 31:15Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”
- Gen 37:30He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
- Matt 2:18“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”
- 2 Kgs 2:1When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
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