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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Revelation 20:14

And, death and hades, were cast into the lake of fire. This, is, the second death - the lake of fire.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Hades;   Hell;   Judgment;   Lake;   Millennium;   Second Death;   Vision;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Destruction);   Death;   Thompson Chain Reference - Future, the;   Joys, Family;   The Topic Concordance - Death;   Hell;   Judgment;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hell;   Judgment;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Book of life;   Death;   Hades;   Hell;   Judgment;   Resurrection;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Condemnation;   Death, Mortality;   Destroy, Destruction;   Fire;   Hades;   Hell;   Judgment, Day of;   Lake of Fire;   Punishment;   Second Death;   Sheol;   Wages;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Croisade, or Crusade;   Destructionists;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Eternal Death;   Judgment, the Final;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Atonement, Day of;   Captivity;   Hell;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Eschatology;   Gods, Pagan;   Intermediate State;   Judgment Day;   Revelation, the Book of;   Sin;   Suffering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chiliasm;   Death;   Time;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Destruction;   Eschatology;   Fire;   Hades;   Hell;   Immortality;   Judgment;   Lake of Fire;   Resurrection;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Death;   Divination;   Hell;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fire;   Gog;   Judge;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Dead;   Death;   Fire;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abolish;   Death;   Death, Second;   Furnace;   Hades;   Immortal;   Lake;   Lake of Fire;   Print;   Revelation of John:;   Satan;   Unquenchable Fire;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Book of Life;   Resurrection;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
And Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death.
Revised Standard Version
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And deth and hell were cast into the lake of fyre. This is that second deeth.
Hebrew Names Version
Death and She'ol were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
New American Standard Bible
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
New Century Version
And Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
Update Bible Version
And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
World English Bible
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death.
Weymouth's New Testament
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of fire; this is the Second Death--the Lake of fire.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And helle and deth weren sent in to a poole of fier. `This is the secunde deth.
English Revised Version
And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death-the lake of fire.
Contemporary English Version
Afterwards, death and its kingdom were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Amplified Bible
Then death and Hades [the realm of the dead] were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire [the eternal separation from God].
American Standard Version
And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire.
Bible in Basic English
And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Death and Sh'ol were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death — the lake of fire.
Darby Translation
and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire.
International Standard Version
Death and Hades[fn] were thrown into the lake of fire. (This is the second death - the lake of fire.)1 Corinthians 15:26,54-55; Revelation 15:6; 21:8;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And death and shiul were cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death.
Murdock Translation
And death and the grave were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [fn] this lake of fire.
King James Version (1611)
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death.
New Living Translation
Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death.
New Life Bible
Then death and hell were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
New Revised Standard
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire;
English Standard Version
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death.
George Lamsa Translation
And death and Sheol were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, which is the burning fire.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire. This is the second death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fyre. This is the seconde death.
Good News Translation
Then death and the world of the dead were thrown into the lake of fire. (This lake of fire is the second death.)
Christian Standard Bible®
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
King James Version
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Lexham English Bible
And Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
Literal Translation
And death and hell were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.
Young's Literal Translation
and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire -- this [is] the second death;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And deth and hell were cast in to the lake of fyre. This is that second deeth.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and death and the grave were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death.
New English Translation
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
New King James Version
Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. [fn]
Simplified Cowboy Version
Then death and hell were thrown into the lake of fire which is the second death.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Contextual Overview

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that was sitting thereon, from whose face fled the earth and heaven, and, place, was not found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and, books, were opened, and, another book, was opened, which is, the book, of life; and the dead, were judged, out of the things written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and, death and hades, gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged, each one, according to their works. 14 And, death and hades, were cast into the lake of fire. This, is, the second death - the lake of fire. 15 And, if anyone was not found, in the book of life, written, he was cast into the lake of fire.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

death: Revelation 19:20, Hosea 13:14, 1 Corinthians 15:26, 1 Corinthians 15:53

This: Revelation 20:6, Revelation 21:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:17 - surely Psalms 21:9 - Thou Isaiah 25:8 - He Matthew 5:22 - hell Matthew 13:42 - cast Luke 8:31 - the deep Luke 12:5 - power Luke 16:23 - in hell Romans 5:12 - and death Romans 6:21 - for the 1 Corinthians 15:54 - Death 1 Corinthians 15:55 - grave 2 Thessalonians 1:8 - flaming 2 Thessalonians 1:9 - be 2 Timothy 1:10 - who James 1:15 - when Revelation 1:18 - the keys Revelation 2:11 - the second Revelation 6:8 - was Death Revelation 20:10 - the lake Revelation 20:13 - and death Revelation 21:4 - no

Cross-References

Genesis 12:16
and with Abram, dealt he well for her sake, - so that he came to have flocks and herds and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses and camels.
Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife: My, sister, is she, - So Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis 20:7
Now, therefore restore the man's wife, for a prophet, is he, that he may pray for thee and live thou, - But if thou art not going to restore her, know, that thou shalt die, thou - and all that are thine.
Genesis 20:11
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God, in this place, - therefore will they slay me for the sake of my wife.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire,.... Death cannot be taken properly, nor hell be the place of torment, for devils and damned spirits; since that is that lake of fire, for then the sense would be, hell is cast into hell; but either by these the devil is meant, who has the power of death, and is the prince of hell, were it not that the casting of him into this lake is mentioned before in

Revelation 20:10 or it denotes the destruction and abolition of death and the grave, that from henceforth they should no more have power over men, nor have any under their dominion, and in their hands; and so what has been promised will now be fully performed, Hosea 13:14 see

Revelation 21:4 or rather the wicked dead, which they shall have delivered up, and will be judged and sentenced to eternal death, Revelation 20:13

this is the second death; or the destruction of the soul and body in hell, which will consist in an eternal separation of both from God, and in a continual sense of his wrath and displeasure. The Alexandrian copy and the Complutensian edition read, "this second death is the lake of fire"; and so the Arabic version, "and this is the second death, even the lake of fire"; and not much different is the Ethiopic version, "the second death, which is the fire of hell".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire - Death and Hades (hell) are here personified, as they are in the previous verse. The declaration is equivalent to the statement in 1 Corinthians 15:26; “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” See the notes on that passage. The idea is, that death, considered as the separation of soul and body, with all the attendant woes, will exist no more. The righteous will live forever, and the wicked will linger on in a state never to be terminated by death. The reign of Death and Hades, as such, would come to an end, and a new order of things would commence where this would be unknown. There might be what would be properly called death, but it would not be death in this form; the soul would live forever, but it would not be in that condition represented by the word ᾅδης hadēs - “hades.” There would be “death” still, but a “second death differs from the first, in the fact that it is not a separation of the soul and body, but a state of “continual agony” like what the first death inflicts - like that in intensity, but not in kind” (Prof. Stuart).

This is the second death - That is, this whole process here described - the condemnation, and the final death and ruin of those whose names are “not found written in the book of life” - properly constitutes the second death. This proves that when it is said that “death and hell were cast into the lake of fire,” it cannot be meant that all punishment will cease forever, and that all will be saved, for the writer goes on to describe what he calls “the second death” as still existing. See Revelation 20:15. John describes this as the second death, not because it in all respects resembles the first death, but because it has so many points of resemblance that it may be properly called “death.” Death, in any form, is the penalty of law; it is attended with pain; it cuts off from hope, from friends, from enjoyment; it subjects him who dies to a much-dreaded condition, and in all these respects it was proper to call the final condition of the wicked “death” - though it would still be true that the soul would live. There is no evidence that John meant to affirm that the second death would imply an extinction of “existence.” Death never does that; the word does not naturally and properly convey that idea.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 20:14. And death and hell were cast into the lake — Death himself is now abolished, and the place for separate spirits no longer needful. All dead bodies and separated souls being rejoined, and no more separation of bodies and souls by death to take place, consequently the existence of these things is no farther necessary.

This is the second death. — The first death consisted in the separation of the soul from the body for a season; the second death in the separation of body and soul from God for ever. The first death is that from which there may be a resurrection; the second death is that from which there can be no recovery. By the first the body is destroyed during time; by the second, body and soul are destroyed through eternity.


 
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