Travelers seek shade beneath broad trees as a fierce summer sun burns over dry hills and shimmering ancient roads.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 4

Read the chapter and trace carefully labeled connections throughout the Bible.

CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 4 — The heat of summer drives people to shelter beneath the covering of the trees.

About this illustration

This scene is a visual interpretation of the chapter in the public-domain R. H. Charles translation; visionary imagery is presented symbolically without claiming details beyond the text.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 4:1–1
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with glowing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.

R. H. Charles translation (1912) · Reprinted 1917 · Public domain in the United States · Editorial brackets and uncertainty markers preserved · Source edition