Revelation 9:1

And the fifth angel sounded; and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth; and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2and he opened the pit of the abyss; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

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Cross References

Luke 10:18And he said to them: I saw Satan, like lightning from heaven, falling.

2 Thessalonians 2:3Let no one deceive you by any means; for that day will not come, unless the apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

Revelation 1:18and I am he that lives; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive from age to age: and I have the keys of hades and of death.

Revelation 8:2And I saw the seven angels that stood before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

Revelation 8:10And the third angel sounded; and there fell from heaven a great star, that burned as a lamp; and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:1

In this chapter we have an account of the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets, the appearances that attended them, and the events that were to follow; the fifth trumpet ( ver. 1-12 ), the sixth, ver. 13, &c. . Read the whole commentary →

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