Luke 8:31
And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
And they entreated him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- they
- Luke 8:28; Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Philippians 2:10, 11
- Luke 8:31
- the deep."The abyss," says Dr. Doddridge, "the prison in which many of these fallen spirits are detained; and to which some, who may, like these, have been permitted for a while to range at large, are sometimes by Divine justice and power remanded."
- Matthew 25:41; Revelation 9:2; Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:2, 3, 14, 15