Revelation 9:6

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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 they were permitted, not to kill them, but to torment them five months; and the torment inflicted by them was like the torment inflicted by a scorpion, when he stings a man.

7And the shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads were, as it were, crowns of gold; and their faces were like the faces of men.

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Cross References

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

Revelation 6:16and said to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that 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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