Revelation 9:11

And they had over them a king, the angel of the abyss: his name, in Hebrew, is Abaddon, and, in Greek, he has the name Apollyon.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

In Context

10And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and they had power to hurt men five months.

12The first woe is past: behold, there are coming, after this, two woes more.

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Cross References

John 12:31Now is the judgment of this world: now is the prince of this world cast out.

John 16:11of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

Ephesians 2:2in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience:

1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the wicked one.

Revelation 12:9And the great dragon, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

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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