1 Enoch 19:1
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And Uriel said to me: ‘Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods, (here shall they stand,) till the day of the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of.
This verse’s chapter, studied
Where the Fallen Stand Until Judgment
Uriel explains that the angels who joined themselves to human women stand in a fixed place, their spirits taking many forms and leading mankind into worshiping demons as gods, until the day of the great judgment finishes them. The women who followed those angels become sirens. Enoch closes the account by saying that he alone, among mortals, has seen this vision.
- Genesis 6:1 : the sons of God taking wives of the daughters of men that Uriel's answer is explaining
- Jude 1:6 : echoes the angels 'reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day'
- 2 Peter 2:4 : echoes God casting the sinning angels down and delivering them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment
- 1 Corinthians 10:20 : stands beside Paul's warning that pagan sacrifices are offered to demons, not to God
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.