Parallel Verses
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.
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
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.
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,
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 coming down from heaven, holding the key to the bottomless pit, with a large chain in his hand. 2 He captured the dragon, that ancient serpent, also known as the Devil and Satan, and tied him up for a thousand years.
Cross References
Revelation 1:18
the living one. I was dead but look! I am alive forever and ever! I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Revelation 10:1
Then I saw another powerful angel come down from heaven. He was dressed in a cloud, and there was a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like columns of fire.
Luke 8:31
He answered, "Legion," because many demons had gone into him. Then the demons began begging Jesus not to order them to go into the bottomless pit.
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into the lowest hell and imprisoned them in chains of deepest darkness, holding them for judgment;
Jude 1:6
He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the great day.
Revelation 9:1-2
When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky. The star was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
Revelation 18:1
After these things, I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was made bright by his splendor.