1 Enoch 88:2
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And one of them drew a sword, and gave it to those elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite each other, and the whole earth quaked because of them.
This verse’s chapter, studied
Bound and Cast Into the Abyss
One of the four heavenly beings seizes the fallen star, binds it hand and foot, and casts it into a narrow, deep, dark abyss. Another gives a sword to the elephants, camels, and asses, and they turn on each other while the earth shakes. A third of the four then gathers up all the great stars whose members were "like those of horses" and binds them all, casting them likewise into an abyss in the earth.
- Jude 1:6 : Angels who "kept not their first estate" are reserved "in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day" — near-exact language for what happens to the fallen star here.
- 2 Peter 2:4 : "God spared not the angels that sinned, but… delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment" — the same binding-for-judgment picture this chapter dramatizes.
- Genesis 6:13 : "The end of all flesh is come before me" is the verdict this chapter's violent, self-devouring giants are already living out before the flood arrives.
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.