Revelation 20:1 “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss,…”

Revelation 20:1

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And I saw an Angel come downe from heauen, hauing the keye of the bottomles pit, and a great chaine 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.

Young's 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,

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.

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Cross references

“I saw”

Revelation 10:1 Revelation 18:1

Revelation 10:1 · BSB

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down 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.

Revelation 18:1 · BSB

After this I saw another angel descending from heaven with great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his glory.

“having”

Revelation 1:18 Luke 8:31 Revelation 9:1 Revelation 9:2

Revelation 1:18 · BSB

the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

Luke 8:31 · BSB

And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.

Revelation 9:1 · BSB

Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.

Revelation 9:2 · BSB

The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

“a great”

2 Peter 2:4 Jude 1:6

2 Peter 2:4 · BSB

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

Jude 1:6 · BSB

And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

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