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

Bible Comments

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 with God in his ordinances and providences. He made God's will his rule, and God's glory his end, in all his actions. He made it his constant care to please God in every thing, and to offend him in nothing, and was a worker together with him. Reader, go thou, and do likewise. He walked with God after he begat Methuselah Which seems to intimate that he did not begin to be eminent for piety till about that time. And he begat sons and daughters A state of matrimony, and the cares and duties incumbent on the master of a family, are not inconsistent with the strictest holiness, or with the office of a prophet, or preacher of righteousness. For, according to Judges 1:14-15, such was Enoch.

Genesis 5:22

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