4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,2:4 Greek Tartarus putting them in chains of darkness2:4 Some manuscripts in gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into 2:4 Gr Tartarus, a name used as a reference to the netherworld (hell)hell and committed them to 2:4 One early ms chains of darknesspits of darkness, held for judgment;
42:4 This verse begins one of the longest sentences in the NT. The sentence concludes in v 10a.For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into 2:4 For emphasis Peter uses a word (tartarus) from Greek mythology describing a hell reserved for the most horrendous of people to emphasize the terrible doom awaiting false prophets and teachers who manipulate and twist the truth of the gospel message.hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment;
4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell,2:4 Greek cast them into Tartarus; see the First Book of Enoch (1 Enoch 13:1–11 and 1 Enoch 20:1–4). placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
4God did not spare angels when they sinned. Instead, he sent them to hell. He chained them up in dark prisons. He will keep them there until he judges them.