Revelation 9:6

And in those days men will seek death, and will, no, not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

In Context

5And it was given them that they would not kill them, but that they would be tormented five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.

7And the likeness of the locusts was similar to horses prepared for battle. And upon their heads were like golden crowns, and their faces were as men's faces.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 1:9And he said to me, Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and kill me, for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.

Job 7:15so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.

Jeremiah 8:3And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says LORD of hosts.

Luke 23:30Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us.

Revelation 6:16And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:2-13

The Seven Trumpets. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they… Read the whole commentary →

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