Revelation 4:2

and immediately I was in [the] Spirit, and behold, a throne was set in Heaven, and on the throne is [One] sitting,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

In Context

1After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in the sky, and the first voice that I heard—as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must come to pass after these things”;

3and He who is sitting was in appearance like a stone, jasper and sardine: and a rainbow was around the throne in appearance like an emerald.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:19And he says, “Therefore, hear a word of YHWH! I have seen YHWH sitting on His throne, and all the host of the heavens standing by Him, on His right and on His left;

Jeremiah 17:12A throne of glory on high from the beginning, || The place of our sanctuary,

Ezekiel 1:28As the appearance of the bow that is in a cloud in a day of rain, so [is] the appearance of the brightness all around.

Ezekiel 10:1And I look, and behold, on the expanse that [is] above the head of the cherubim, as a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne, He has been seen over them.

Hebrews 8:1And the sum concerning the things spoken of [is]: we have such a Chief Priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Greatness in the heavens,

Revelation 3:21He who is overcoming—I will give to him to sit with Me in My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father in His throne.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 4:2-11

The Vision of Heaven. ( a. d. 95.) 1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. 3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. 4… Read the whole commentary →

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