Revelation 9:1

And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth, and there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.

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Cross References

Isaiah 14:12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?

Luke 10:18And he said to them: I saw Satan like lightening falling from heaven.

2 Thessalonians 2:3Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

Revelation 1:18And alive, and was dead, and behold I am living for ever and ever, and have the keys of death and of hell.

Revelation 8:2And I saw seven angels standing in the presence of God; and there were given to them seven trumpets.

Revelation 8:10And the third angel sounded the trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning as it were a torch, and it fell on the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters:

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:1

In this chapter we have an account of the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets, the appearances that attended them, and the events that were to follow; the fifth trumpet ( ver. 1-12 ), the sixth, ver. 13, &c. . Read the whole commentary →

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