Parallel Verses
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,
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.
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.
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 And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, 2 and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,
Cross References
Revelation 1:18
and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.
Revelation 10:1
And I saw another strong messenger coming down out of the heaven, arrayed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon the head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire,
Luke 8:31
and he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to the abyss,
2 Peter 2:4
For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,
Jude 1:6
messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,
Revelation 9:1-2
And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,
Revelation 18:1
And after these things I saw another messenger coming down out of the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his glory,