Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God, after he begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Enoch walked with God, after he begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Verse Genesis 5:22. _AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD - THREE HUNDRED YEARS_] There are several things worthy of our most particular notice in this account: 1. The name of this patriarch; _Enoch_, from חנך...
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III. THE BOOK OF THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM CHAPTER 5 Adam and His Seed Through Seth _ 1. Adam (Genesis 5:1)_ 2. Seth (Genesis 5:6) 3. Enos (Genesis 5:9) 4. Cainan ...
Sethite Genealogy of Antediluvians. With the exception of Genesis 5:29 this comes from P, as is clear from the style, each statement being cast in the same mould, and the whole forming a mere catalogu...
WALKED. walked to and fro; why not literally as with Adam before the Fall? Genesis 2:19; Genesis 3:8....
_walked with God_ The phrase here, as in Genesis 5:24, used of Enoch, has passed into common use to express intimacy of communion with God. It denotes more than either standing in His presence, or wal...
_AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD AFTER HE BEGAT METHUSELAH THREE HUNDRED YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ And Enoch walked with God - Hebrew, _ HAA-'ELOHIYM_ (H430), the God, a personal deity; because...
THE DESCENDANTS OF ADAM TO NOAH The purpose of the historian in giving the names and ages of the antediluvian Patriarchs was, no doubt, to show the glorious ancestry of the chosen race, and to account...
ENOCH] the one figure which breaks the formality of this chapter His conduct is mentioned in a way which implies that the majority of men lived differently. In all his actions he recognised the duty w...
We do not know whether this list of names is complete. Perhaps it leaves out some names. For example, verse 6 may mean, ‘Seth lived for 105 years and then he became a father. And one *descendant of Se...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 5 ADAM’S FAMILY V1 These are Adam’s *descendants. When God created man, he made man similar to God. V2 He created them as man and woman. He promis...
וַ יִּתְהַלֵּ֨ךְ חֲנֹ֜וךְ אֶת ־הָֽ אֱלֹהִ֗ים...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
POSTERITY OF ADAM Genesis 5:1 In contrast to Cain's line in the previous chapter, we have Seth's in this. Note the curious similarity in the names, as though the Cainites professed all that the Sethi...
In this chapter we have a condensed account of fifteen centuries in human history. The ruin of the race had come through man's belief in the devil's lie. "Ye shall not surely die." The repetition thro...
And Enoch (f) walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: (f) That is, he led an upright and godly life....
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Enoch, signifies the dedicated one.- Amos 3:3. Observe! at the age 65, he is said to have walked with God. May not this be supposed to mean...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
22._And Enoch walked with God_. Undoubtedly Enoch is honored with peculiar praise among the men of his own age, when it is said that he walked with God. Yet both Seth and Enoch, and Cainan, and Mahala...
In chapter 5 we have the family of God upon the earth, subject to death, but depositary of the counsels and of the testimony of God. Here we may remark Enoch, who has his portion in heaven, and who be...
AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD, AFTER HE BEGAT METHUSELAH, THREE HUNDRED YEARS,.... The Greek version is two hundred. He had walked with God undoubtedly before, but perhaps after this time more closely and...
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: Ver. 22. _And Enoch walked with God,_] i.e., he walked in the fear of the Lord, as the Chaldee h...
_Enoch walked with God_ A Scriptural phrase for eminent piety. He set God always before him, and acted as one that considered he was always under his eye. He lived a life of communion and intercourse...
1 The genealogie, age, and death of the Patriarchs from Adam vnto Noah. 24 The godlinesse and translation of Enoch. 1 THIS is the [NOTE: 1 Chronicles 1:1.] booke of the generations of Adam: In the d...
THIRD SECTION _Adam and Seth. The Sethites or Macrobii (the long-lived). The living Worship and the Blessing of the Life-renewing in the Line of the Sons of God_ GENESIS 5:1-32 (COMPARE 1 CHRONICLES...
THE FAMILY OF ADAM - THROUGH SETH This chapter is called "the book of the genealogy of Adam" (v.1). However, the line of Cain is omitted and only the line of Seth included. The reason for this is indi...
21-24 Enoch was the seventh from Adam. Godliness is walking with God: which shows reconciliation to God, for two cannot walk together except they be agreed, Amos 3:3. It includes all the parts of a g...
i.e. He lived as one whose eye was continually upon God; whose care and constant course and business it was to please God, and to imitate him, and to maintain acquaintance and communion with him; as o...
Genesis 5:22 After H310 begot H3205 (H8687) H853 Methuselah H4968 Enoch H2585 walked H1980 (H8691) with...
‘When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eigh...
ENOCH Enoch, "translated that he should not see death" (Hebrews 11:5) before the judgment of the Flood, is a type of those saints who are to be translated before the apocalyptic judgments (1 Thessalo...
Genesis 5:21 In the Bible, besides its ordinary characters, and besides its simply extraordinary men such as David, Solomon, or Isaiah, there is another and a still more interesting order, around who...
CONTENTS: Generations from Adam to Noah. CHARACTERS: Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuseleh, Lamech, Noah. CONCLUSION: By man came death. In Adam all die. In Christ shall all...
Genesis 5:1. _The book of generations;_ the princely line of holy patriarchs, from whom the Messiah descended. Genesis 5:4. _And begat sons and daughters;_ but not being primogenitors of the promised...
_This is the book of the generations of Adam_ DISTINGUISHED MEN I. SOME MEN ARE RENDERED DISTINGUISHED BY THE PECULIARITY OF THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVE. Adam; the first human being to (1) inhabit...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 5:22 ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD... AND HE WAS NOT, FOR GOD TOOK HIM. The Hebrew verb for “walked” conveys a close relationship with God (compare...
CRITICAL NOTES.—Notwithstanding the measure of difficulty standing in the way of ascertaining the meaning of the proper names of Scripture, the subject cannot be wisely neglected: what we do know is e...
§ 3. THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM (CH. 5:1-6:8) EXPOSITION The present section carries forward the inspired narrative another stage, in which the onward progress or development of the human race is traced...
Now chapter five, This is the book of the generations of Adam. [And as you read these generations of Adam and as it lists them for us] In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he h...
Genesis 6:9 Genesis 17:1 Genesis 24:40 Genesis 48:15 Exodus 16:4...
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah — To walk with God, is to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God, b...