Revelation 20:2

Good News Translation

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent—that is, the Devil, or Satan—and chained him up for a thousand years.

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

Now the snake was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made. The snake asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel.”

Job 1:7

The Lord asked him, “What have you been doing?” Satan answered, “I have been walking here and there, roaming around the earth.”

Isaiah 24:22

God will crowd kings together like prisoners in a pit. He will shut them in prison until the time of their punishment comes.

Isaiah 27:1

On that day the Lord will use his powerful and deadly sword to punish Leviathan, that wriggling, twisting dragon, and to kill the monster that lives in the sea.

Ezekiel 47:5

He measured 560 yards more, and there the stream was so deep I could not wade through it. It was too deep to cross except by swimming.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake, will receive a hundred times more and will be given eternal life.

Matthew 8:29

At once they screamed, “What do you want with us, you Son of God? Have you come to punish us before the right time?”

Mark 4:15

Some people are like the seeds that fall along the path; as soon as they hear the message, Satan comes and takes it away.

Mark 5:7

and screamed in a loud voice, “Jesus, Son of the Most High God! What do you want with me? For God's sake, I beg you, don't punish me!” (

John 12:31

Now is the time for this world to be judged; now the ruler of this world will be overthrown.

John 16:11

and they are wrong about judgment, because the ruler of this world has already been judged.

Romans 16:20

And God, our source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

Hebrews 2:14

Since the children, as he calls them, are people of flesh and blood, Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature. He did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death,

1 Peter 5:8

Be alert, be on watch! Your enemy, the Devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

2 Peter 2:4

God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment.

Jude 1:6

Remember the angels who did not stay within the limits of their proper authority, but abandoned their own dwelling place: they are bound with eternal chains in the darkness below, where God is keeping them for that great Day on which they will be condemned.

Revelation 12:13

When the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he began to pursue the woman who had given birth to the boy.

Revelation 12:15

And then from his mouth the dragon poured out a flood of water after the woman, so that it would carry her away.

Revelation 12:17

The dragon was furious with the woman and went off to fight against the rest of her descendants, all those who obey God's commandments and are faithful to the truth revealed by Jesus.

Revelation 12:3

Another mysterious sight appeared in the sky. There was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and a crown on each of his heads.

Revelation 12:4

With his tail he dragged a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. He stood in front of the woman, in order to eat her child as soon as it was born.

Revelation 12:9

The huge dragon was thrown out—that ancient serpent, named the Devil, or Satan, that deceived the whole world. He was thrown down to earth, and all his angels with him.

Revelation 13:2

The beast looked like a leopard, with feet like a bear's feet and a mouth like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave the beast his own power, his throne, and his vast authority.

Revelation 13:4

Everyone worshiped the dragon because he had given his authority to the beast. They worshiped the beast also, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who can fight against it?”

Revelation 20:10

Then the Devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 20:7

After the thousand years are over, Satan will be set loose from his prison,

Revelation 9:11

They have a king ruling over them, who is the angel in charge of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek the name is Apollyon (meaning “The Destroyer”).