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Genesis 5:22

Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat son. According to the Septuagint version he was an hundred and eighty eight years old; but according to the Samaritan version only fifty…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

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 chanack, which signifies…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 5:21-24

The accounts here run on for several generations without any thing remarkable, or any variation but of the names and numbers; but at length there comes in one that must not be passed over so, of whom…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

walked with God The phrase here, as in Gen 5:5, 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 walking…