Revelation 9:15

And the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.

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In The King James Version

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

In Context

14Saying to the sixth angel who had the horn, Make free the four angels who are chained at the great river Euphrates.

16And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: the number of them came to my ears.

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Cross References

Revelation 8:9And destruction came on a third part of the living things which were in the sea, and on a third part of the ships.

Revelation 9:5And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.

Revelation 9:18By these evils a third part of men was put to death, by the fire, and the smoke, and the burning smell which came out of their mouths.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:14-21

The Seventh Trumpet. ( a. d. 95.) 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. 16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of… Read the whole commentary →

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