Revelation 9:1

AND the fifth angel sounded; and I saw a star fallen out of heaven to the earth, and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 pit of the abyss, and there went up 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.

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Cross References

Luke 10:18And he said to them: I beheld Satan fall as lightning from heaven.

2 Thessalonians 2:3Let not any one deceive you in any manner; because [that day will not come], except there come first the falling away, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Revelation 1:18and the living one; and I became dead, and behold I am alive forevermore; and I have the keys of death and of the underworld.

Revelation 8:2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and there were given to them seven trumpets.

Revelation 8:10And the third angel sounded; and there fell out of heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the 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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