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Contemporary English Version

Revelation 20:7

At the end of the thousand years, Satan will be set free.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Millennium;   Satan;   Vision;   Year;   Scofield Reference Index - Death;   Thompson Chain Reference - Adversary;   Satan-Evil Spirits;   Satanic;   Serpent;   Tempter;   Wiles, Satanic;   The Topic Concordance - Deception;   Devil/devils;   Hell;   Israel/jews;   War/weapons;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Devil, the;   Dragon, the;   Prisons;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gog and Magog;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Millennium;   Satan;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Condemnation;   Heaven, Heavens, Heavenlies;   Hell;   Satan;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Conflagration;   Croisade, or Crusade;   Millennium;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Millennium;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canticles;   ;   Devil;   Gog;   Revelation of John, the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dragon;   Jerusalem;   Millennium;   Prison, Prisoners;   Revelation, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chiliasm;   Devil;   Gog;   Millennium;   Parousia;   Time;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ascension of Isaiah;   Divination;   God and Magog;   Judgment Damnation;   King;   Prison;   Resurrection;   Sin (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Millennium;   Prison;   Prophets, the;   Satan ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fire;   Gog;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Devil;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gog and Magog;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gog;   Print;   Revelation of John:;   Satan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison
King James Version (1611)
And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
King James Version
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
New American Standard Bible
When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison,
New Century Version
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be set free from his prison.
THE MESSAGE
When the thousand years are up, Satan will be let loose from his cell, and will launch again his old work of deceiving the nations, searching out victims in every nook and cranny of earth, even Gog and Magog! He'll talk them into going to war and will gather a huge army, millions strong. They'll stream across the earth, surround and lay siege to the camp of God's holy people, the Beloved City. They'll no sooner get there than fire will pour out of Heaven and burn them up. The Devil who deceived them will be hurled into Lake Fire and Brimstone, joining the Beast and False Prophet, the three in torment around the clock for ages without end.
English Standard Version
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison,
Berean Standard Bible
When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,
Complete Jewish Bible
When the thousand years are over, the Adversary will be set free from his prison
Darby Translation
And when the thousand years have been completed, Satan shall be loosed from his prison,
Easy-to-Read Version
When the 1000 years are ended, Satan will be made free from his prison.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when the thousand yeres are expired, Satan shalbe loosed out of his prison,
George Lamsa Translation
And when the thousand years come to an end. Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Good News Translation
After the thousand years are over, Satan will be set loose from his prison,
Lexham English Bible
And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison
Literal Translation
And whenever the thousand years are ended, Satan will be set loose out of his prison,
Amplified Bible
And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison (the abyss),
American Standard Version
And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Bible in Basic English
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison,
Hebrew Names Version
And after the thousand years, Hasatan will be freed out of his prison,
International Standard Version
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be freed from his prison.Revelation 20:2;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And when the thousand years shall be fulfilled, Satana will be loosed from the place of his keeping,
Murdock Translation
And when these thousand years shall be completed, Satan will be released from his prison;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the thousande yeres are expired, Satan shalbe loosed out of his pryson.
English Revised Version
And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
World English Bible
And after the thousand years, Satan will be freed out of his prison,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And when the thousand years are fulfilled, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Weymouth's New Testament
But when the thousand years are at an end, the Adversary will be released from his imprisonment,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne a thousynde yeeris schulen be endid, Sathanas schal be vnboundun of his prisoun; and he schal go out, and schal disseyue folkis, that ben on foure corners of the erthe, Gog and Magog. And he schal gadere hem in to batel, whos noumbre is as the grauel of the see.
Update Bible Version
And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Webster's Bible Translation
And when the thousand years have expired, Satan shall be loosed from his prison,
New English Translation
Now when the thousand years are finished, Satan will be released from his prison
New King James Version
[xr] Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison
New Living Translation
When the thousand years come to an end, Satan will be let out of his prison.
New Life Bible
When the 1,000 years are finished, Satan will be free to leave his prison.
New Revised Standard
When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, as soon as the thousand years, shall be ended, the Accuser shall be loosed out of his prison,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the thousand years shall be finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go forth and seduce the nations which are over the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog: and shall gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Revised Standard Version
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And when the .M. yeares are experied Satan shalbe lowsed out of his preson
Young's Literal Translation
And when the thousand years may be finished, the Adversary shall be loosed out of his prison,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And when the thousand yeares are expyred, Sathan shalbe lowsed out of his preson,
Mace New Testament (1729)
When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Simplified Cowboy Version
After a thousand years, Satan will be untied and dragged out of the pit.

Contextual Overview

1 I saw an angel come down from heaven, carrying the key to the deep pit and a big chain. 2 He chained the dragon for a thousand years. It is that old snake, who is also known as the devil and Satan. 3 Then the angel threw the dragon into the pit. He locked and sealed it, so that a thousand years would go by before the dragon could fool the nations again. But after that, it would have to be set free for a little while. 4 I saw thrones, and sitting on those thrones were the ones who had been given the right to judge. I also saw the souls of the people who had their heads cut off because they had told about Jesus and preached God's message. They were the same ones who had not worshiped the beast or the idol, and they had refused to let its mark be put on their hands or foreheads. They will come to life and rule with Christ for a thousand years. 5These people are the first to be raised to life, and they are especially blessed and holy. The second death has no power over them. They will be priests for God and Christ and will rule with them for a thousand years. No other dead people were raised to life until a thousand years later. 7 At the end of the thousand years, Satan will be set free. 8 He will fool the countries of Gog and Magog, which are at the far ends of the earth, and their people will follow him into battle. They will have as many followers as there are grains of sand along the beach, 9 and they will march all the way across the earth. They will surround the camp of God's people and the city that his people love. But fire will come down from heaven and destroy the whole army. 10 Then the devil who fooled them will be thrown into the lake of fire and burning sulfur. He will be there with the beast and the false prophet, and they will be in pain day and night forever and ever.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Revelation 20:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:15 - thou 1 Kings 22:22 - a lying spirit Job 2:6 - save Job 38:11 - but Ecclesiastes 3:17 - for Matthew 8:32 - Go Matthew 12:29 - General Matthew 13:39 - enemy Mark 4:15 - Satan Mark 5:13 - gave Mark 13:5 - Take Luke 8:32 - he suffered Luke 12:58 - into John 8:44 - He was John 14:30 - the John 15:19 - because Romans 8:39 - depth 2 Corinthians 11:15 - his Ephesians 6:11 - the wiles 1 Peter 3:19 - in 1 John 5:19 - in wickedness Revelation 20:3 - and after

Cross-References

Genesis 2:17
except the one that has the power to let you know the difference between right and wrong. If you eat any fruit from that tree, you will die before the day is over!"
Genesis 12:15
The king's officials told him about her, and she was taken to his house.
Genesis 12:17
Because of Sarai, the Lord struck the king and everyone in his palace with terrible diseases.
Genesis 20:1
Abraham moved to the Southern Desert, where he settled between Kadesh and Shur. Later he went to Gerar, and while there
Genesis 20:2
he told everyone that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream and said, "You have taken a married woman, and for this you will die!"
Genesis 20:4
Abimelech said to the Lord, "Don't kill me! I haven't slept with Sarah. Didn't they say they were brother and sister? I am completely innocent."
Genesis 20:6
God spoke to Abimelech in another dream and said: I know you are innocent. That's why I kept you from sleeping with Sarah and doing anything wrong.
Genesis 20:9
Abimelech then called in Abraham and said: Look what you've done to us! What have I ever done to you? Why did you make me and my nation guilty of such a terrible sin?
Genesis 20:14
Abimelech gave Abraham some sheep, cattle, and slaves. He sent Sarah back

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the thousand years are expired,.... Which are not yet expired; not in the year 1000, or 1033 or 4, reckoning from the birth or death of Christ, when Paganism, which had been destroyed in the Gentile world, was introduced into the church, which bore the Christian name, through the man of sin; for this had been bringing in by degrees more or less from the times of Constantine; whence it appears, that Satan in this respect was loose before, and therefore this was not the time of his loosing; nor in 1073, reckoning from the destruction of Jerusalem, and the carrying and spread of the Gospel among the Gentiles, in which year Hildebrand came to the popedom, who may be truly called the brand of hell; Damianus, a brother cardinal, who lived at the same time with him when he was archdeacon of Rome, calls him the holy devil; he was an impostor, sorcerer, and necromancer, and by wicked arts got into the Papal chair; this pope raised the Papal power over princes to a very great height, and made the see of Rome absolutely independent, and all bishops dependent on it; he forbid bishops receiving their investiture from the emperor, or any lay person, under pain of excommunication: this is the pope that made the emperor, with his empress and child, wait three days barefoot at his gates, in the depth of winter, before they could be admitted to him; that doctrine of devils, forbidding priests to marry, was established by him; and in his days that monstrous and absurd notion of transubstantiation began to prevail, though he himself used his breaden god but very roughly; for taking it to be really God, he required an answer from it against the emperor; but it not speaking, he threw it into the fire, and burnt it. Now it will be allowed, that the devil was loose at this time, but then so he was before: there had been popes before this who were conjurers, necromancers, and had familiarity and confederacy with the devil; and near five hundred years before this time, the pope was declared universal bishop by Phocas; and the forbidding priests marriage was started in the council of Nice, and was approved of by Pope Siricius, long before this time, though it was now more firmly established; add to this, that if the expiration of the 1000 years and the loosing of Satan were at this time, he must have been loosed near 700 years, which can never be called a little season, as in Revelation 20:3 especially in comparison of the 1000 years, the time of his binding; when it is two thirds of that time: nor did these years expire in or about 1300, reckoning from Constantine, about which time Pope Boniface the Eighth lived, of whom it is said, that he came in like a fox, railed like a lion, and died like a dog; upon his accession to the popedom, he instituted a jubilee, and on the first day he appeared in his pontifical habit, and gave the benediction to the people, and on the next day he clothed himself with an imperial habit, and put on a rich diadem, and sat on a throne, with a naked sword bore before him, when he uttered these words, "Ecce hic duo gladii", "Behold here are two swords", referring to Luke 22:38 which the Papists would have understood of the temporal and spiritual power which Peter and his successors are possessed of; at the same time Ottoman was crowned emperor of the Mahometan nations, who founded the Turkish empire, and spread the Mahometan religion in Asia and Greece; and by both these, great disturbances and wars were occasioned, both in the east and west: but still this does not make it appear that now was the time of Satan's loosing; since before this time the Papal power was at its utmost height, and the Mahometan religion had been hundreds of years in the world, and had greatly prevailed; and therefore Satan must be loosed before; and indeed it is in vain to seek after the expiration of these years, and the loosing of Satan, when as yet the years are not begun, nor has Satan been bound, as has been shown on Revelation 20:2 but however, when they will be ended,

Satan shall be loosed out of his prison; during the thousand years he will be in a state of confinement, being bound, shut, and sealed up in the bottomless pit, which is therefore here called a prison, as is the place of damned spirits, in 1 Peter 3:19 but when these will be at an end; his chain will be taken off, at least will be lengthened; the seal upon him will be broken off, the bottomless pit will be opened, and he let loose; which will be done not by himself, but by him that bound him, or by divine permission.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And when the thousand years are expired - See Revelation 20:2.

Satan shall be loosed out of his prison - See Revelation 20:3. That is, a state of things will then occur as if Satan should be for a time let loose again, and should be permitted to go as formerly over the world. No intimation is given “why or how” he would be thus released from his prison. We are not, however, to infer that it would be a mere arbitrary act on the part of God. All that is necessary to be supposed is, that there would be, in certain parts of the world, a temporary outbreak of wickedness, as if Satan were for a time released from his chains.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 20:7. Satan shall be loosed — How can this bear any kind of literal interpretation? Satan is bound a thousand years, and the earth is in peace; righteousness flourishes, and Jesus Christ alone reigns. This state of things may continue for ever if the imprisonment of Satan be continued. Satan, however, is loosed at the end of the thousand years, and goes out and deceives the nations, and peace is banished from the face of the earth, and a most dreadful war takes place, &c., &c. These can be only symbolical representations, utterly incapable of the sense generally put upon them.


 
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