1 Enoch 26:4
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And to the west thereof there was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine deep and dry between them: and another deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the three mountains.
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.