Revelation 9:1

AND the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth; and to him was given the key of the pit of the abyss of hell.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2And he opened the pit of the abyss; and a smoke ascended out of the pit like the smoke of a vast furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

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Cross References

Luke 10:18And he said unto them, I beheld Satan falling as lightning from heaven.

2 Thessalonians 2:3Let no man deceive you in any way: because that cannot be till the apostasy come first, and the man of sin appear, the son of perdition,

Revelation 1:18and I am the living one, though I was dead and lo! I am alive for evermore, Amen; and I hold the keys of hell and of death.

Revelation 8:2And I saw the seven angels which stood before God, and there were given to them seven trumpets.

Revelation 8:10And the third angel blew the trumpet, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of water;

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:1

In this chapter we have an account of the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets, the appearances that attended them, and the events that were to follow; the fifth trumpet ( ver. 1-12 ), the sixth, ver. 13, &c. . Read the whole commentary →

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