1 Enoch 54

1And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a deep valley with burning fire.*The writer passes from the valley of judgement and the fetters still in making to the valley of Gehenna where the kings are cast. The fallen angels and the kings are mentioned together as in Isa. xxiv. 21, 22.*Gehenna. See xlviii. 9 (note), and cf. lvi. 3, 4. This valley of Hinnom lay to the south of Jerusalem. 2And they brought the kings and the mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley. 3And there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight.*3-5. The first judgement of the Watchers, cf. x-xvi. The ’abyss’ here is only the preliminary place of punishment, cf. x. 5, 12. 4And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying: ‘For whom are these chains being prepared?’ 5And he said unto me: ‘These are being prepared for the hosts of Azâzêl, so that they may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits commanded. 6And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.’ LIV. 7.-LV. 2. Noachic Fragment on the first World Judgement.*Their second judgement.*Note that in the Parables the guilt of the Watchers lay in becoming subject to Satan. Cf. xl. 7; Jubilees x. 8 seqq. and 5° > q,abcde. 7And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits, and He will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens, and of the fountains which are beneath the earth.*LIV. 7–LV. 2. Interpolated. A digression on the first world-judgement–the Deluge and so a Noachic fragment. Cf. xxxix. 1, 2ᵃ, liv. 7-lv. 2, lx, lxv-lxix. 25. These all (1) disturb the context; (2) claim to be by Noah lx. 7-11, 24, 25, lxv-lxviii. 1; (3) misunderstand the Parables, e.g. combine lii. 1, 2 with liv. 1; (4) give a definite date, lx. 1; (5) in lxviii. 2-5 contradict liv. 4-6, lv. 3, 4; (6) confuse the Satans and the fallen angels, lxix, and make Semjâzâ the leader, not Azâzêl; (7) misuse borrowed technical terms and phrases, lx. 11, 24, lxvii. 8, 10: also liv. 9, lv. 1, lx. 10, lxvi. 1; (8) use the Samaritan chronology, not that of the LXX, see lxv. 2 (note) Jubilees x. 13, xxi. 10 mention a Book of Noah, whence these passages were interpolated to supply Enoch's silence about the Flood. 8And all the waters shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the masculine, and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine.*In primitive Babylonian cosmology water = the primitive element or the original male and female elements. 9And they shall destroy all who dwell on the earth and those who dwell under the ends of the heaven. 10And when they have recognized their unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then by these shall they perish.’