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.
- ENOS man the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Genesis 5:6-11; Luke
3:38). He lived nine hundred and five years. In his time “men began to call
upon the name of the Lord” (Genesis 4:26), meaning either (1) then began
men to call themselves by the name of the Lord (marg.) i.e., to distinguish
themselves thereby from idolaters; or (2) then men in some public and
earnest way began to call upon the Lord, indicating a time of spiritual
revival. - EN-ROGEL fountain of the treaders; i.e., “foot-fountain;” also called the
“fullers’ fountain,” because fullers here trod the clothes in water. It has
been identified with the “fountain of the virgin” (q.v.), the modern ‘Ain
Ummel-Daraj. Others identify it, with perhaps some probability, with the
Bir Eyub, to the south of the Pool of Siloam, and below the junction of the
valleys of Kidron and Hinnom. (See FOUNTAIN.)
It was at this fountain that Jonathan and Ahimaaz lay hid after the flight of
David (2 Samuel 17:17); and here also Adonijah held the feast when he
aspired to the throne of his father (1 Kings 1:9).
The Bir Eyub, or “Joab’s well,” “is a singular work of ancient enterprise.
The shaft sunk through the solid rock in the bed of the Kidron is 125 feet
deep...The water is pure and entirely sweet, quite different from that of
Siloam; which proves that there is no connection between them.”
Thomson’s Land and the Book.