Revelation 12:8

Revelation 12:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
• New International Version (NIV)But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.
• English Standard Version (ESV)but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
• New King James Version (NKJV)but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.

Context of Revelation 12:8

6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days. 7Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels. 9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. 10And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down— he who accuses them day and night before our God.

Revelation 12:8 word by word

καὶ οὐκ ἴσχυσεν, οὐδὲ τόπος εὑρέθη αὐτῶν ἔτι ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ.Read the interlinear

• ·καίkai · andG2532
• was not strong enoughοὐou · noG3756
• was not strong enoughἰσχύωischuō · be strongG2480
• no longerοὐδέoude · norG3761
• no longerἔτιeti · stillG2089
• any placeτόποςtopos · placeG5117
• foundεὑρίσκωheuriskō · to find/meetG2147
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• heavenοὐρανόςouranos · heavenG3772
• forαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846

Cross-references for Revelation 12:8

• Revelation 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
• Psalms 13:4lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.
• Psalms 118:10All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
• Psalms 129:2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
• Jeremiah 1:19They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
• Matthew 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
• Romans 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
• Job 7:10He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
• Job 8:18If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
• Job 20:9The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
• Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
• Psalms 37:10Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
• Acts 1:25to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”
• Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

Commentaries on Revelation 12:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8And prevailed not - Against the cause of Christianity. Neither was their place found any more in heaven - The advocates of the heathen idolatry were prevented from having any farther share in the government of the empire. The wonderful success of Constantine over all his enemies, and his final triumph over Licinius, correspond exactly to the symbolical language in this verse.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8And prevailed not - Satan and his angels failed in their purpose. Neither was their place found any more in heaven - They were cast out, and were seen there no more. The idea is, that they were defeated and driven away, though for a time they were suffered to carry on the warfare elsewhere.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-11Verses 7-11 The attempts of the dragon proved unsuccessful against the church, and fatal to his own interests. The seat of this war was in heaven; in the church of Christ, the kingdom of heaven on earth. The parties were Christ, the great Angel of the covenant, and his faithful followers; and Satan and his instruments. The strength of the church is in having the Lord Jesus for the Captain of their salvation. Pagan idolatry, which was the worship of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-9This scene reveals the dragon’s identity and power. God sends Michael, the warrior archangel (see Daniel 12:1; Jude 1:9), to face the dragon and his angels. God does not need to fight the battle himself (see Matthew 26:53), and Satan is defeated.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. prevailed not--A and Coptic read, "He prevailed not." But B and C read as English Version. neither--A, B, and C read, "not even" (Greek, "oude"): a climax. Not only did they not prevail, but not even their place was found any more in heaven. There are four gradations in the ever deeper downfall of Satan: (1) He is deprived of his heavenly excellency, though having still access to heaven as man's accuser, up to Christ's first coming. As heaven was not…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Revelation 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings