Revelation 19:20 BSB

Revelation 19:20

But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

BSB

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ASV

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:

KJV

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And the beast was taken,.... At the first onset, as soon as ever the battle begun, and carried away captive, as it was threatened he should, Rev 13:10 and this by Christ, who will destroy him with the breath of his mouth, and the brightness of his coming, 2Th 2:

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

There were two that went alive into heaven; perhaps there are two that go alive into hell. It may be, Enoch and Elijah entered at once into glory, without first waiting in paradise; the beast and the false prophet plunge at once into the extremest degree of torment, without being reserved in chains of darkness till the judgment of the great day.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The dragon is both lion and serpent. As the first law in God's moral government is that "judgment should begin at the house of God," and be executed on the harlot, the faithless Church, by the world power with which she had committed spiritual adultery, so it is a second law that the world power, after having served as God's instrument of punishment, is itself punished.

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Original language & word study

43 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἐπιάσθη	epiasthē	was captured	G4084 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
θηρίον,	thērion	beast,	G2342 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μετ᾽	met᾽	with	G3326 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	him	G846 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
ψευδοπροφήτης	pseudoprophētēs	false prophet	G5578 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
ποιήσας	poiēsas	having done	G4160 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
σημεῖα	sēmeia	signs	G4592 →
ἐνώπιον	enōpion	before	G1799 →
αὐτοῦ,	autou	him,	G846 →
ἐν	en	by	G1722 →
οἷς	hois	which	G3739 →
ἐπλάνησεν	eplanēsen	he deceived	G4105 →
τοὺς	tous	those	G3588 →
λαβόντας	labontas	having received	G2983 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
χάραγμα	charagma	mark	G5480 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
θηρίου	thēriou	beast	G2342 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τοὺς	tous	those	G3588 →
προσκυνοῦντας	proskunountas	worshiping	G4352 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
εἰκόνι	eikoni	image	G1504 →
αὐτοῦ.	autou	of it.	G846 →
ζῶντες	zōntes	living	G2198 →
ἐβλήθησαν	eblēthēsan	were cast	G906 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
δύο	duo	two	G1417 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
λίμνην	limnēn	lake	G3041 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
πυρὸς	puros	of fire	G4442 →
τῆς	tēs	which	G3588 →
καιομένης	kaiomenēs	is burning	G2545 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
θείῳ.	theiō	brimstone.	G2303 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10
  Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
- Revelation 20:14–15
  Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 2:11
  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
- Ephesians 5:5–6
  For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- Revelation 22:15
  But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Through
Revelation 20:10
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day…
leads to
- Matthew 25:41
  Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Matthew 25:46
  And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Revelation 20:2–3
  He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.