1 Enoch 10:16
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore.
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Sentence: Noah Hidden, Azazel Bound, the Earth Healed
God answers the archangels' appeal with a series of commands. Noah is to be warned of the coming flood and hidden. Azazel is to be bound and cast into darkness until the day of judgment. Gabriel is sent against the giants to make them destroy one another, and Michael is sent to bind Semjaza and his companions for seventy generations until the final judgment. The chapter ends with a promise that the earth will be cleansed and restored to peace and fruitfulness.
- Genesis 6:13 : God's instruction to warn and hide Noah stands directly beside Genesis 6:13-14's command to build the ark ahead of the flood.
- Jude 1:6 : "He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day" describes precisely what this chapter narrates being done to Azazel and Semjaza's company.
- 2 Peter 2:4 : Peter's angels "cast down to hell, and delivered into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment" echoes the same binding-until-judgment sentence given here.
Teachers on this ground
R. H. Charles
The Book of Enoch (1917)
The public-domain translation this shelf reads, with the critical introduction the field still builds on.
Johnny Enlow
The Book of Enoch: Paraphrase and Commentary (2025)
A living teacher's paraphrase of the whole book with his own running commentary, from the prophetic stream.
Michael S. Heiser
A Companion to the Book of Enoch: A Reader's Commentary, Vol. I — The Book of the Watchers (2019)
A verse-by-verse reader's commentary on chapters 1–36: the closest thing in print to a study Bible for this section.
Michael S. Heiser
Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ (2017)
How the Watchers story of these chapters stands behind New Testament theology.
Gary Wayne
The Genesis 6 Conspiracy (2014)
A topical case for the Watchers reading these chapters narrate: giants, bloodlines, and the seed war.
Timothy Alberino
Birthright: The Coming Posthuman Apocalypse and the Usurpation of Adam's Dominion on Planet Earth (2020)
Reads the Watchers rebellion of these chapters into the Bible's larger dominion story.