Bible term “1000 years”

The following ESV verses employ the term “a thousand years” either figuratively as “a long time of indeterminate length”, or as literally as a time span of 1000 years. In Scripture the term appears 10 times in 5 passages.

Ps 90:4

For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

Eccles 6:6

Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?

2 Pet 3:8

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Revelation 20:1–7

1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.

2And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

3and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

4Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

5The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.

6Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

7And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison