1 Enoch 26:2
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And there I saw a holy mountain, and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south.
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Navel of the Earth
Enoch travels to the middle of the earth and sees a blessed, tree-covered place, a holy mountain with a stream flowing south beneath it, and a set of neighboring mountains and dry ravines that make up a strikingly ordered landscape.
- Ezekiel 5:5 : echoes Jerusalem set 'in the midst of the nations' as the earth's reference point
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.