KJV 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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Revelation 20:1
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT 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,
Surrounding context — Revelation 20
1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Topics connected to this verse
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΚαὶG2532 · kaiandεἶδονG1492 · eidōto perceive: understandἄγγελονG32 · angelosangelκαταβαίνονταG2597 · katabainōto come/go downἐκG1537 · ekout fromτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoοὐρανοῦG3772 · ouranosheavenἔχονταG2192 · echōto have/beτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoκλεῖνG2807 · kleiskeyτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀβύσσουG12 · abussosabyssκαὶG2532 · kaiandἅλυσινG254 · halusischainμεγάληνG3173 · megasgreatἐπὶG1909 · epiupon/to/againstτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoχεῖραG5495 · cheirhandαὐτοῦ.G846 · autosit/s/he
Cross-references
Revelation 1:18[I am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.2 Peter 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;Jude 1:6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.Revelation 9:1-2And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.Revelation 18:1And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.Revelation 10:1And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow [was] upon his head, and his face [was] as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:Luke 8:31And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
Compare classic commentaries on Revelation 20:1
Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.
Compare commentaries →