Revelation 9:11

They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek tongue he hath the name Apollyon.

Revised Version 1895

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 have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.

12The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.

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Cross References

Job 26:6Sheol is naked before him, and Abaddon hath no covering.

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

John 16:11of judgment, because the prince of this world hath been judged.

Ephesians 2:2wherein aforetime ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.

Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down 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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