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In Job, the pillars of heaven tremble at God’s rebuke, a sign of his appearing. 1 Enoch echoes that cosmic shaking but now describes it as the sound of the returning exiles’ chariots instead.
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Job 26:11
Hebrew Bible
10 He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness. 11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke. 12 By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.
1 Enoch 57:2
Pseudepigrapha
1 And it happened after that, I saw another group of chariots, with men riding them, arriving on the winds from the east, the west, and the south. 2 The sound of their chariots was heard, and when this disturbance occurred, the holy ones from heaven took notice, and the foundations of the earth shifted from their places, and the noise was heard from one end of the sky to the other, all in one day. 3 And everyone will fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this marks the end of the second Parable.
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Notes and References
... The second pair adds a mythic dimension. The rumbling of the chariots is so immense that it shakes the very pillars of the earth. This imagery of an earthquake is normally reserved for the consequences of the theophany and the eschatological cataclysm (Job 26:11; Isaiah 24:19-20; Joel 3:16; Haggai 2:6-7; 1 Enoch 1:5-7), and we may suppose that what the holy ones in heaven hear is the whole ruckus on earth. As noted above, verse 2e reprises the elements in verses 1b-2a. The noise that begins in the East and the West is heard in the corresponding parts of heaven. ...
Nickelsburg, George W. E.
A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 37-82
(p. 215) Fortress Press, 2012
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