Revelation 9:15

So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

In Context

14saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

16And the number of mounted troops was a hundred million; I heard their number.

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Cross References

Revelation 8:9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

Revelation 9:5The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.

Revelation 9:18A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded from their mouths.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:14-21

The Seventh Trumpet. ( a. d. 95.) 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. 16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of… Read the whole commentary →

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