"... In this passage, God commissions the angel Michael to bind Shemihazah and the other Watchers in the valleys of the earth until the eternal judgment (10:11–12), at which time they will be led away to the fiery abyss (10:13). The valleys are also designated as the holding place for the halfbreed sons of the Watchers and everyone who is condemned (10:14–15). This commission lies in the background to the description of the theophany in 1 Enoch 1:3c–9. The major focus of God’s commission, however, as it continues in 10:16–11:2, relates not to the Watchers but to the earth and its inhabitants. Hartman has illustrated that the language and motifs of the Noah story in Genesis 6–9 have colored this passage. The Enochic author reads the story of Noah as a prefigurement of the end-time. Noah stands for the righteous, the Flood for the judgment, and Noah’s escape and renewed life on the earth for the eschatological salvation of the righteous. As Hartman notes, because the author of 1 Enoch 10:11–11:2 is interpreting biblical texts, passages from outside the Noah story, but containing related motifs, are also brought into his exposition. Among the motifs from non-Noahic passages are those with ties to the Divine Warrior Hymn ..."