Revelation 9:11

And they haue a King ouer them, which is the Angel of the bottomlesse pit, whose name in Hebrewe is Abaddon, and in Greeke he is named Apollyon, that is, destroying.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

In Context

10And they had tailes like vnto scorpions, and there were stings in their tailes, and their power was to hurt men fiue moneths.

12One woe is past, and beholde, yet two woes come after this.

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Cross References

Job 26:6The graue is naked before him, and there is no couering for destruction.

John 12:31Now is the iudgement of this world: nowe shall the prince of this world be cast out.

John 16:11Of iudgement, because the prince of this world is iudged.

Ephesians 2:2Wherein, in times past ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the prince that ruleth in the aire, euen the spirite, that nowe worketh in the children of disobedience,

1 John 5:19We knowe that we are of God, and this whole world lieth in wickednesse.

Revelation 12:9And the great dragon, that olde serpent, called the deuil and Satan, was cast out, which deceiueth all the world: he was euen cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out 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 →

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