10 Let hot coals fall on them.
Let them be thrown into the fire,
into the abyss, never again to rise.(A)

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or, “Who will go down into the abyss?”[a](A) that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:7 Dt 30:13

The Fifth Trumpet

The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth.(A) The key for the shaft to the abyss(B) was given to him. He opened the shaft to the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great[a] furnace(C) so that the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 9:2 Other mss omit great

11 They had as their king[a] the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon,[b](A) and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:11 Or as king over them
  2. 9:11 Or Destruction
  3. 9:11 Or Destroyer

The Witnesses Martyred

When they finish their testimony, the beast(A) that comes up out of the abyss(B) will make war on them, conquer them, and kill them.

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The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss(A) and go to destruction.(B) Those who live on the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world(C) will be astonished when they see the beast that was, and is not, and is to come.(D)

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Satan Bound

20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven holding the key to the abyss(A) and a great chain(B) in his hand.

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He threw him into the abyss, closed it, and put a seal on it(A) so that he would no longer deceive the nations(B) until the thousand years were completed. After that, he must be released for a short time.

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