1 Enoch 21:5
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: ‘Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth?
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Prison Built for Stars
Enoch comes to a chaotic place and sees seven stars bound together like burning mountains. Uriel explains they are stars that transgressed God's commandment and are bound for ten thousand years, the term set by their sin. Enoch is then shown a worse place, a fiery abyss with columns of descending fire, which Uriel names as the prison where the fallen angels will be shut up forever.
- Jude 1:6 : echoes angels reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day
- 2 Peter 2:4 : echoes angels cast down to hell and delivered into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment
- Revelation 20:1 : stands beside the binding of the dragon in the abyss for a fixed term
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.