Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.
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.
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.
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 descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain. 2 He seized the dragon -- the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan -- and tied him up for a thousand years.
Cross References
Revelation 1:18
and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive -- forever and ever -- and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!
Revelation 10:1
Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire.
Luke 8:31
And they began to beg him not to order them to depart into the abyss.
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,
Jude 1:6
You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up 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 from the sky to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss.
Revelation 18:1
After these things I saw another angel, who possessed great authority, coming down out of heaven, and the earth was lit up by his radiance.