Revelation 9:6

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

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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 it was given to them that they would not kill them, but that they would torture them for five months. And their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when he strikes a man.

7And the likenesses of the locusts resembled horses prepared for battle. And upon their heads were something like crowns similar to gold. And their faces were like the faces of men.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 1:9And he said to me: “Stand over me, and kill me. For anguish has taken hold of me, and still my whole life is in me.”

Job 7:15so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.

Jeremiah 8:3And they will greatly prefer death to life: all those who will have been left from this wicked kindred, in all the forsaken places to which I will cast them out, says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 23:30Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall over us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’

Revelation 6:16And they said to the mountains and the rocks: “Fall over us and hide us from the face of the One sitting upon 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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