Revelation 9:11

And they had a king over them, the angel of the abyss; and his name, in Hebrew, is Abaddon; and in Greek, his name is Apollyon.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 tails like those of scorpions, and stings; and with their tails they had the power of hurting men five months.

12One woe is past; lo, there come yet two woes after them.

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Cross References

John 12:31Now is the judgment of this world: now the ruler of this world is cast out.

John 16:11and of Judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Ephesians 2:2in the which ye before walked, according to the worldliness of this world, and according to the pleasure of the prince potentate of the air, that spirit which is active in the children of disobedience:

1 John 5:19We know, that we are of God; and all the world is reposing on the evil one.

Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, who is called the Deceiver, and Satan, who seduceth all the inhabited world: he was cast upon 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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