Genesis 5:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Genesis 5:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Section V - The Line to Noah - The Line of Sheth 1. ספר s e pher “writing, a writing, a book.” 9. קינן qēynān , Qenan, “possessor, or spearsman.” 12. < מהללאל mah...
Genesis 5:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Genesis 5:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 catal...
Genesis 5:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Walked . walked to and fro; why not literally as with Adam before the Fall? Genesis 2:19 ; Genesis 3:8 .
Genesis 5:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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, an...
Genesis 5:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And Enoch walked with God - three hundred years - There are several things worthy of our most pa...
Genesis 5:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 deit...
Genesis 5:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 acc...
Genesis 5:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1-32 ; Genesis 6:1-22 ; Genesis 7:1-24 ; Genesis 8:1-22 ; Genesis 9:1-29 THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was t...
Genesis 5:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Posterity of Adam Genesis 5:1-24 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...
Genesis 5:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 thr...
Genesis 5:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Genesis 5:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Genesis 5:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Genesis 5:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Genesis 5:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 in...
Genesis 5:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Translation of Enoch. B. C. 3017. 21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Met...
Genesis 5:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Genesis 5:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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 eig...
Genesis 5:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 i...
Genesis 5:22 - Scofield Reference Notes

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 (...
Genesis 5:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 5:21-24 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, arou...
Genesis 5:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 pro...
Genesis 5:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

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) in...
Genesis 5:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

§ 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...
Genesis 5:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

From Enoch to Shem, Ham, and Japheth
Genesis 5:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 6:9 Genesis 17:1 Genesis 24:40 Genesis 48:15 Exodus 16:4 Leviticus 26:12 Deuteronomy 5:33 Deuteronomy 13:4 Deuteronomy 28:9 1 Kings 2:4 2 Kings 20:3 Psalms 16:8 Psalm...
Genesis 5:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

Genesis 5:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 5:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 5:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 5:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 5:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 5:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 5:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 5:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 5:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 5:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 5:22 - Scofield Reference Notes

Genesis 5:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 5:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 5:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 5:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 5:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 5:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 5:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes