i.e. He appeared not any longer upon earth, or amongst mortal men. The same phrase is in Gen_42:36Jer_31:15.
For God took him out of this sinful and miserable world unto himself, and to his heavenly habitation: see Luk_23:43. And he took either his soul, of which alone this phrase is used, Eze_24:16; or rather both soul and body, as he took Elias, 2Ki_2:11, because he so took him that he did not see death, Heb_11:5.