Enoch

Genesis 5 is a long run of names and ages, each ending in “and he died.” Enoch is the exception: “Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” He lived 365 years, fewer than his neighbours, and the chapter says nothing more about how or where. Hebrews 11 reads it as faith, saying he “pleased God,” and Luke lists him in the family line of Jesus. The passages give little detail, so they leave more room for wonder than for explanation. Read Genesis 5:21-24 slowly.

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Genesis

Genesis 5:18

And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

Genesis 5:19

And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:20

And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

Genesis 5:21

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

Genesis 5:22

And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:23

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

Genesis 5:24

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

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 1:3

Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

Luke

Luke 3:37

Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,

Hebrews

Hebrews 11:5

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.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

Initiated. (1.) The eldest son of Cain (Gen. 4:17), who built a city east of Eden in the land of Nod, and called it “after the name of his son Enoch.” This is the first “city” mentioned in Scripture.

(2.) The son of Jared, and father of Methuselah (Gen. 5:21; Luke 3:37). His father was one hundred and sixty-two years old when he was born. After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch “walked with God three hundred years” (Gen. 5:22-24), when he was translated without tasting death. His whole life on earth was three hundred and sixty-five years. He was the “seventh from Adam” (Jude 1:14), as distinguished from the son of Cain, the third from Adam. He is spoken of in the catalogue of Old Testament worthies in the Epistle to the Hebrews (11:5). When he was translated, only Adam, so far as recorded, had as yet died a natural death, and Noah was not yet born. Mention is made of Enoch’s prophesying only in Jude 1:14.

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From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

(dedicated).

(1.) The eldest son of Cain, (Genesis 4:17) who called after his name the city which he built. (Genesis 4:18) (B.C. 3870.)

(2.) The son of Jared and father of Methuselah. (Genesis 5:21) ff.; Luke 3:37 (B.C. 3378-3013.) In the Epistle of Jude (Jude 1:14) he described as "the seventh from Adam;" and the number is probably noticed as conveying the idea of divine completion and rest, while Enoch was himself a type of perfected humanity. After the birth of Methuselah it is said, (Genesis 5:22-24) that Enoch "walked with God three hundred years... and he was not; for God took him." The phrase "walked with God" is elsewhere only used of Noah, (Genesis 6:9) cf. Genesis17:1 etc., and is to be explained of a prophetic life spent in immediate converse with the spiritual world. Like Elijah, he was translated without seeing death. In the Epistle to the Hebrews the spring and issue of Enoch’s life are clearly marked. Both the Latin and Greek fathers commonly coupled Enoch and Elijah as historic witnesses of the possibility of a resurrection of the body and of a true human existence in glory. (Revelation 11:3)