Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in this first resurrection: over them the second death hath no dominion; but they shall be, nay are, priests of God and of his Messiah; and they will reign with him the thousand years.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
5This is the first resurrection.
7And when these thousand years shall be completed, Satan will be released from his prison;
Cross References
Luke 14:15And when one of those reclining heard these things, he said to him: Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
Romans 12:1I beseech you, therefore, my brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, by a rational service of him.
1 Peter 2:5And ye also, as living stones, are builded and become spiritual temples, and holy priests, for the offering of spiritual sacrifices, acceptable before God, through Jesus the Messiah.
Revelation 1:6and hath made us a kingdom sacerdotal to God and his Father: to whom be glory and power, for ever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 5:10and thou hast made them kings and priests to our God; and they reign on the earth.
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 →