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14 For they are the spirits of the demons performing signs who go out to the kings of the earth[a] to bring them together for the battle that will take place on the great day of God, the All-Powerful.[b]

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  1. Revelation 16:14 tn BDAG 699 s.v. οἰκουμένη 1 states, “the inhabited earth, the worldὅλη ἡ οἰκ. the whole inhabited earthMt 24:14; Ac 11:28; Rv 3:10; 16:14.”
  2. Revelation 16:14 tn On this word BDAG 755 s.v. παντοκράτωρ states, “the Almighty, All-Powerful, Omnipotent (One) only of God…() κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ π.…Rv 1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; 21:22.”

and will go out to deceive[a] the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog,[b] to bring them together for the battle. They are as numerous as the grains of sand in the sea.[c]

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  1. Revelation 20:8 tn Or “mislead.”
  2. Revelation 20:8 sn The battle with Gog and Magog is described in the OT in Ezek 38:1-39:20.
  3. Revelation 20:8 tn Grk “of whom the number of them [is] like the sand of the sea” (an allusion to Isa 10:22).