Scriptural Savant

2 Baruch 62

Related ancient text — scholarly reference

Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.

1"And the black seventh waters which thou bast seen, this is the perversion (brought about) by the counsel of Jeroboam, who took counsel to make two calves of gold.

2And all the iniquities which kings who were after him iniquitously wrought.

3And the curse of Jezebel and the worship of idols which Israel practised at that time.

4And the withholding of rain, and the famines which occurred until women eat the fruit of their wombs.

5And the time of their captivity which came upon the nine tribes and a half, because they were in many sins.

6And Salmanasar king of Assyria came and led them away captive.

7But regarding the Gentiles it were tedious to tell how they always wrought impiety and wickedness, and never wrought righteousness.

8These are the black seventh waters which thou hast seen.

Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.