Revelation 9:11

They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.

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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 have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.

12The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.

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Cross References

Job 26:6The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

John 12:31Now is this world to be judged: now will the ruler of this world be sent out.

John 16:11Of being judged, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

Ephesians 2:2In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

1 John 5:19We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down 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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