Revelation 16:21
Also as a result of the angel’s emptying his bowl, huge hailstones, each weighing about 100 pounds, fell from the sky onto the people. Then people insulted God because he had caused the destructive hail to fall on them in that terrible plague.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
20Also as a result of the earthquake, every island disappeared, and the mountains became flat land.
Cross References
Joshua 10:11As they fled in front of the Israeli army, Yahweh threw down huge hailstones from the sky. As a result, more of them died from hailstones falling on them than died as a result of the Israeli army killing them with swords.
Isaiah 8:21They will wander through the land, worried/discouraged and hungry. And when they become very hungry, they will become very angry. They will look up toward heaven and curse God and will also curse their king.
Ezekiel 13:11So, tell those prophets who cover the wall with whitewash that the wall will surely fall down. It will rain very hard. I will send big hailstones to fall. Very strong winds will blow against it.
Ezekiel 38:21Gog, on all the mountains in the country that belongs to me I will cause your soldiers to fight against each other with their swords.
Revelation 11:19Then God’s temple in heaven was opened {was open} and I saw in the temple the sacred box/chest that contains God’s commandments. Lightning was flashing, it was thundering and rumbling, the earth shook, and large hailstones fell from the sky.
Revelation 16:11They insulted God who rules in heaven, because their sores were so painful. But they refused to stop doing the evil things that they were doing.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 16:18-21
The Seven Vials. ( a. d. 95.) 17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the… Read the whole commentary →