Person
Enoch
father of Methuselah
- Also called
- Henoch
- Father
- Children
- Born
- 3382 BC
- Died
- 3017 BC
- Groups
- Genealogy of Jesus
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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.
Timeline
- 3382 BCBirth of Enoch · Genesis 5:18
- 3382 BCLifetime of Enoch · Genesis 5:21–24
- 3317 BCBirth of Methuselah · Genesis 5:21
- 3017 BCEnoch taken up · Genesis 5:24 – Hebrews 11:5