Revelation 20:1

James Moffatt - New Testament

Then I saw an angel descend from heaven with the key of the abyss and a huge chain in his hand;

Cross References

Revelation 1:18

I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare angels who had sinned, but committing them to pits of the nether gloom in Tartarus, reserved them under punishment for doom:

Jude 1:6

while the angels who abandoned their own domain, instead of preserving their proper rank, are reserved by him within the nether gloom, in chains eternal, for the doom of the great Day —

Revelation 18:1

After that I saw another angel descend from heaven, great in might; his radiance lit up the earth,

Revelation 10:1

Then I saw another strong angel descend from heaven; he was clad in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, his face like the sun, his feet like columns of fire,

Luke 8:31

And they begged him not to order them off to the abyss.

Revelation 20:3

flinging him into the abyss and shutting and sealing it on the top of him, to prevent him seducing the nations again until the thousand years were completed — after which he has to be released for a little while.