And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
23. and all the days, &c.] Concerning Enoch the following points deserve attention: (1) He is the seventh in the genealogy, cf. Jdg 1:14; (2) by comparison with the lives of his fathers and descendants, the length of his life is immensely curtailed; (3) the number of his years agrees with the number of days in the solar year; (4) owing to the closeness of his walk with God he was believed to have been “translated” into Heaven. With this summary must be compared the account of the seventh king in the antediluvian Babylonian Dynasty, Enmeduranki by name, who received revelations from the Sun-god Samas, and was the builder of the town of Sippar, which was dedicated to the Sun-god.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. A year of years, living as many years as there are days in a year; not half the age of the rest of the patriarchs: our poet t calls him one of middle age; though his being taken away in the midst of his days was not a token of divine displeasure, but of favour, as follows; see Ps 55:23.
t Milton’s Paradise Lost, B. 11. l. 665.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Ver. 23. All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years. ] So many years only lived Enoch as there be days in the year. But what he wanted in the shortening of his time, was made up in his son Methuselah, the longest living man. Besides that, God took him to a better place, transplanted Son 6:2 a him, as it were out of the kitchen garden into his heavenly paradise; which was not more to his own benefit, than to the comfort of the other patriarchs that survived him, before the fear of death, and the crosses of life. Seth in Enoch (whatever discouragement they had in Abel’s death) they had a hidden demonstration that “there is a reward for the righteous,” and that it is not altogether in vain to walk with God.
a “To gather lilies,” i.e ., to transplant his people into heaven.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
am 987, bc 3017, Gen 5:23
Reciprocal: Ecc 6:6 – though Isa 38:3 – I have