Revelation 9:11
They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.
12The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still to follow.
Cross References
Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
John 12:31Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.
John 16:11and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.
Ephesians 2:2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels 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 →