Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
Then I saw
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
Themes
Devil/devils » What satan does
Devil/devils » The devil being cast down to the pit of hell
Devil/devils » The binding and loosening of satan
Pit » Figurative » The bottomless pit
Vision » Of john on the island of patmos » Satan bound for one-thousand years
Interlinear
Katabaino
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in Revelation 20:1
Images Revelation 20:1
Prayers for Revelation 20:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Satan Bound For A Thousand Years
1 Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
Cross References
Revelation 1:18
the living one. I was dead, yet here I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the underworld.
Revelation 10:1
Then I saw another mighty angel descend from heaven. He was clothed in a cloud, and a rainbow encircled his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like pillars of fire,
Luke 8:31
And they begged him not to order them off to the bottomless pit.
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but plunged them into Tartarus, and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,
Jude 1:6
and the angels who neglected their responsibilities and abandoned their homes he has put in everlasting chains to be kept in darkness for the judgment of the great Day,
Revelation 9:1-2
Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen on the earth from the sky. He was given the key to the pit of the abyss,
Revelation 18:1
Afterward I saw another angel come down from heaven. He possessed great authority and his splendor lighted up the earth.