Revelation 6:8

And I saw, and lo! a livid horse,—and he that was sitting thereupon had for a name, Death, and, Hades, was following with him; and there was given unto them authority over the fourth of the earth, to slay with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

In Context

7And, when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature, saying—Go!

9And, when he opened the fifth seal, I saw, beneath the altar, the souls of them who had been slain because of the word of God and because of the witness which they held.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:22And will send among you the wild-beast of the field And it shall rob you of your children, And cut off your cattle, And make you few in number; And your roads shall be silent.

Isaiah 25:8Having swallowed up death itself victoriously, My Lord, Yahweh, will wipe away, tears from off all faces,—And the reproach of his own people, will he remove from off all the earth, For, Yahweh, hath spoken.

Jeremiah 16:4Of deaths from diseases, shall they die, They shall not be lamented, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they serve,—Yea by sword and by famine, shall they be consumed, And, their dead bodies shall become, food—To the bird of the heavens, and To the beast of the earth.

Jeremiah 43:11And when he entereth, then will he smite the land of Egypt and deliver Him who is for death to death and Him who is for captivity to captivity, and Him who is for the sword to the sword.

Ezekiel 5:15So shall it become a reproach and an insult a warning and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about thee,—in that I have executed upon thee judgments in anger and in indignation and in rebukes of indignation, I, Yahweh have spoken:

Hosea 13:14Out of the hand of hades, will I ransom them, out of death, will I redeem them,—Where is thy pestilence, O death? Where thy plague, O hades? Repentance, shall be hid from mine eyes.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 6:4-9

The Opening of the Seals. ( a. d. 95.) 3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. 4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. 5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6 And I… Read the whole commentary →

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