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12 Bible verses about the Millennium KJV

Revelation 20 describes a thousand years in which Satan is bound and those who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus reign with Christ. The Old Testament passages here are the ones commonly read alongside it. How literally to take the thousand years is a question Christians answer differently, and this page lays out the text rather than the argument.

Each verse is quoted in full — tap a reference to read it in context, see cross references, and study the original words.

Revelation 20:1-2 · KJV

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

Revelation 20:3 · KJV

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.

Revelation 20:4 · KJV

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Revelation 20:5 · KJV

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Revelation 20:6 · KJV

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Isaiah 11:6 · KJV

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Isaiah 11:9 · KJV

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Isaiah 2:4 · KJV

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Zechariah 14:9 · KJV

And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Psalm 72:8 · KJV

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

Daniel 7:14 · KJV

And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

Isaiah 9:7 · KJV

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

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