Revelation 12:9
The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
World English Bible
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In Context
8They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
Genesis 3:13The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
2 Chronicles 18:21“He said, ‘I will go, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ “He said, ‘You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go and do so.’
Job 2:1Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Isaiah 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
Isaiah 65:25The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says the LORD.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 12:2-12
The Woman and the Dragon. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the… Read the whole commentary →