Revelation 20:9

They went up over the width of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.

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In The King James Version

And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

In Context

8and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

10The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:24Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.

Leviticus 10:2Fire came out from before the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

Numbers 16:35Fire came out from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

2 Kings 6:15When the servant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”

Psalms 48:1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Psalms 97:3A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 20:2-11

The Binding of Satan. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat… Read the whole commentary →

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