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Luke 8:31

The demons asked Jesus not to send them to the hole without a bottom in the earth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Power;   Realized Power;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Deep and Depths;   Gadara;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abyss;   Clean, Unclean;   Demon;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Abyss;   Communion (2);   Easton Bible Dictionary - Deep;   Gadara;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Deep;   Hell;   Satan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deep, the;   Evangelism;   Gadarene;   Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abyss;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abyss ;   Demon, Demoniacal Possession, Demoniacs;   Descent into Hades;   Grecians, Greeks;   Lake of Fire;   Luke;   Lunatic;   Madness;   Poet;   Possession;   Spirits in Prison;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bottomless Pit;   Deep, the;   Gadarenes;   Miracles;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Abyss;   Lunatics;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abyss, the;   Bottomless Pit;   Deep;   Demon;   Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abyss;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And they begged him not to banish them to the abyss.
King James Version (1611)
And they besought him, that he would not command them to goe out into the deepe.
King James Version
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
English Standard Version
And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss.
New American Standard Bible
And they were begging Him not to command them to go away into the abyss.
New Century Version
The demons begged Jesus not to send them into eternal darkness.
Amplified Bible
They continually begged Him not to command them to go into the abyss.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They were imploring Him not to command them to go away into the abyss.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they were pleading with Him not to command them to go away into the abyss.
Berean Standard Bible
And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
Contemporary English Version
They begged Jesus not to send them to the deep pit, where they would be punished.
Complete Jewish Bible
They begged Yeshua not to order them to go off into the Bottomless Pit.
Darby Translation
And they besought him that he would not command them to go away into the bottomless pit.
Easy-to-Read Version
The demons begged Jesus not to send them into the bottomless pit.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they besought him, that he would not commaund them to goe out into the deepe.
George Lamsa Translation
And they besought him not to command them to go down into the abyss.
Good News Translation
The demons begged Jesus not to send them into the abyss.
Lexham English Bible
And they began imploring him that he would not order them to depart into the abyss.
Literal Translation
And they begged Him that He not order them to go away into the abyss.
American Standard Version
And they entreated him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss.
Bible in Basic English
And they made a request to him that he would not give them an order to go away into the deep.
Hebrew Names Version
They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
And they besought from him that he would not cast them out to go into the abyss.
Murdock Translation
And they besought him, not to command them to depart into the abyss.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they besought hym, that he woulde not commaunde them, to go out into the deepe.
English Revised Version
And they entreated him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss.
World English Bible
They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they besought him, that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
Weymouth's New Testament
and they besought Him not to command them to be gone into the Bottomless Pit.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei preyden hym, that he schulde not comaunde hem, that thei schulden go in to helle.
Update Bible Version
And they entreated him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they besought him, that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
New English Translation
And they began to beg him not to order them to depart into the abyss.
New King James Version
And they begged Him that He would not command them to go out into the abyss.
New Living Translation
The demons kept begging Jesus not to send them into the bottomless pit.
New Revised Standard
They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they were beseeching him that he would not order them, into the abyss, to depart.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they besought him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
Revised Standard Version
And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they besought him yt he wolde not comaunde the to goo out into ye depe.
Young's Literal Translation
and he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to the abyss,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they besought him, that he wolde not comaunde the to go in to the depe.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and they entreated him not to condemn them to the abyss.
Simplified Cowboy Version
They begged Jesus not to send them to hell.

Contextual Overview

22 On one of those days Jesus and His followers got into a boat. Jesus said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." Then they pushed out into the water. 23 As they were going, Jesus fell asleep. A wind storm came over the lake. The boat was filling with water and they were in danger. 24 The followers came to awake Jesus. They said, "Teacher! Teacher! We are going to die!" Then Jesus got up and spoke sharp words to the wind and the high waves. The wind stopped blowing and there were no more waves. 25 He said to them, "Where is your faith?" The followers were surprised and afraid. They said to each other, "What kind of a man is He? He speaks to the wind and the waves and they obey Him." 26 They came to the land of the Gadarenes, which is on the other side of the country of Galilee. 27 As Jesus stepped out on land, a man met Him who had come from the city. This man had demons in him. For a long time he had worn no clothes. He did not live in a house, but lived among the graves. 28 When he saw Jesus, he got down before Him and cried with a loud voice, "What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High? I beg of You not to hurt me!" 29 For Jesus had spoken to the demon to come out of the man. Many times the demon had taken hold of him. The man had to be tied with chains. But he would break the chains and be taken by the demon into the desert. 30 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And the demon answered, "Many," because many demons had gone into him. 31 The demons asked Jesus not to send them to the hole without a bottom in the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Luke 8:28, Job 1:11, Job 2:5, Philippians 2:10, Philippians 2:11

the deep: "The abyss," says Dr. Doddridge, "the prison in which many of these fallen spirits are detained; and to which some, who may, like these, have been permitted for a while to range at large, are sometimes by Divine justice and power remanded." Matthew 25:41, Revelation 9:2, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:2, Revelation 20:3, Revelation 20:14, Revelation 20:15

Reciprocal: 2 Peter 2:4 - but Revelation 9:1 - the bottomless

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they besought him,.... That is, all the devils, the whole legion of them, entreated Jesus, under whose power, and at whose dispose they were:

that he would not command them to go out into the deep; meaning, not the deep waters of the sea, for thither they ran the swine at their own request; but the bottomless pit of hell, where others of these spirits lay in chains of darkness; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "into hell": they desired, that when they went out of this man, they might not be ordered thither, or remanded to their former prison; for they knew that if he gave the word of command, they must obey; but that they might be suffered to continue in that country, and range about on earth, or be any where, rather than in hell.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the Matthew 8:23-34 notes, and Mark 5:1-20 notes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 31. And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. — In the Chaldaic philosophy, mention is made of certain material demons, who are permitted to wander about on the earth, and are horribly afraid of being sent into abysses and subterranean places. Psellus says, De Daemonibus: "These material demons fearing to be sent into abysses, and standing in awe of the angels who send them thither, if even a man threaten to send them thither and pronounce the names of those angels whose office that is, it is inexpressible how much they will be affrighted and troubled. So great will their astonishment be, that they cannot discern the person that threatens them. And though it be some old woman or little old man that menaces them, yet so great is their fear that they depart as if the person who menaces had a power to kill them." See Stanley's Chaldaic Philosophy.


 
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