Passage

Angels who left their dwelling

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

⁶Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Jude 1:6World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

Jude describes angels who abandoned their dwelling being kept in bonds under darkness for judgment.

To understand

The preceding example names people brought out of Egypt who later did not believe. The following example names Sodom, Gomorrah and surrounding cities.

A question

What did the angels leave, and what does the writer say now holds them?