Revelation 8:1

And, as soon as he opened the seventh seal, there came to be silence in heaven, as it were half an hour.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

In Context

2And I saw the seven messengers which, before God, do stand; and there were given unto them seven trumpets.

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Cross References

Psalms 37:7Be resigned to Yahweh, yea wait with longing for him; Burn not with vexation at him who prospereth in his way,—at the man who doeth wickedness.

Habakkuk 2:20Howbeit, Yahweh, is in his holy temple,—Hush before him, all the earth.

Revelation 5:1And I saw, upon the right hand of him that was sitting upon the throne, a scroll; written within, and on the back, sealed up with seven seals.

Revelation 6:1And I saw, when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder—Go!

Revelation 6:5And, when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature, saying—Go! And I saw, and lo! a black horse, and he that was sitting thereon holding a pair of balances in his hand.

Revelation 6:9And, 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.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 8:1

We have already seen what occurred upon opening six of the seals; we now come to the opening of the seventh, which introduced the sounding of the seven trumpets; and a direful scene now opens. Most expositors agree that the seven seals represent the interval between the apostle's time and the reign of Constantine, but that the seven trumpets are designed to represent the rise of antichrist, some time after the empire became Christian. In this chapter we have, I. The preface, or prelude, to the sounding of the… Read the whole commentary →

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