Revelation 8:1
And when be had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about haft an hour.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God; and there were given to them seven trumpets.
Cross References
Psalms 37:7Hope thou patiently on the LORD, And in him place thy trust! Be not angry on account of the prosperous,—On account of him that deviseth deceit!
Habakkuk 2:20But Jehovah is in his Holy temple; Be silent before him, all the earth!
Revelation 5:1And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and without, sealed fast with seven seals.
Revelation 6:1And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard, as it were the voice of thunder, one of the four living creatures saying, Come!
Revelation 6:5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come! And I saw, and lo! a black horse, and he that sat on him, having a pair of scales in his hand.
Revelation 6:9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain on account of the word of God, and on account of the testimony which they had borne;
Matthew Henry on Revelation 8:1
We have already seen what occurred upon opening six of the seals; we now come to the opening of the seventh, which introduced the sounding of the seven trumpets; and a direful scene now opens. Most expositors agree that the seven seals represent the interval between the apostle's time and the reign of Constantine, but that the seven trumpets are designed to represent the rise of antichrist, some time after the empire became Christian. In this chapter we have, I. The preface, or prelude, to the sounding of the… Read the whole commentary →