Parallel Verses

Common New Testament

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the abyss and a great chain.

New American Standard Bible

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

King James Version

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

Holman Bible

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

International Standard Version

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key to the bottomless pit, with a large chain in his hand.

A Conservative Version

And I saw an agent coming down out of heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

American Standard Version

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Amplified

And then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding the key of the abyss (the bottomless pit) and a great chain was in his hand.

An Understandable Version

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key to the pit and a huge chain in his hand.

Anderson New Testament

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.

Bible in Basic English

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the great deep and a great chain in his hand.

Daniel Mace New Testament

Afterwards I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, with a great chain in his hand.

Darby Translation

And I saw an angel descending from the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

And I saw an angel descending from heaven, who had the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.

Godbey New Testament

And I saw an angel coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain on his hand.

Goodspeed New Testament

Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

John Wesley New Testament

And I saw an angel descending out of heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.

Julia Smith Translation

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.

King James 2000

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Modern King James verseion

And I saw an angel come down from Heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.

Moffatt New Testament

Then I saw an angel descend from heaven with the key of the abyss and a huge chain in his hand;

Montgomery New Testament

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, with the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

NET Bible

Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.

New Heart English Bible

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Noyes New Testament

And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.

Sawyer New Testament

And I saw an angel descending from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

The Emphasized Bible

And I saw a messenger, coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain upon his hand;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

AND I saw an angel descending from heaven, having the key of the abyss [of hell], and a great chain in his hand:

Twentieth Century New Testament

Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, with the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

Webster

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

Weymouth New Testament

Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and upon his arm he carried a great chain.

Williams New Testament

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

World English Bible

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Worrell New Testament

And I saw an angel coming down out of Heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain upon his hand.

Worsley New Testament

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, who had the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.

Youngs Literal Translation

And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

I saw
εἴδω 
Eido 
Usage: 519

an angel
G32
ἄγγελος 
Aggelos 
Usage: 153

καταβαίνω 
Katabaino 
Usage: 63

ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

οὐρανός 
Ouranos 
Usage: 156

ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

the key
κλείς 
Kleis 
key
Usage: 2

of the bottomless pit
G12
ἄβυσσος 
Abussos 
Usage: 9

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

a great
μέγας 
megas 
Usage: 167

ἅλυσις 
Halusis 
Usage: 11

in
ἐπί 
Epi 
on, in, upon, unto, to,
Usage: 644

his

Usage: 0

References

Images Revelation 20:1

Prayers for Revelation 20:1

Context Readings

Satan Bound For A Thousand Years

1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the abyss and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Cross References

Revelation 1:18

and the Living One; I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore! And I have the keys of death and Hades.

Revelation 10:1

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.

Luke 8:31

And they begged him repeatedly not to command them to go into the Abyss.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, he has kept in eternal chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

Revelation 9:1-2

And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star which had fallen from heaven to earth; and he was given the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit.

Revelation 18:1

After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority; and the earth was made bright with his splendor.

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