Revelation 8:1

When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

2Then I saw the seven angels who are in the presence of God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

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Cross References

Revelation 5:1And I saw lying in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written on both sides and closely sealed with seven seals.

Revelation 6:1And when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals I saw it, and I heard one of the four living creatures say, as if in a voice of thunder, "Come."

Revelation 6:5When the Lamb broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come." I looked, and a black horse appeared, its rider carrying a balance in his hand.

Revelation 6:9When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw at the foot of the altar the souls of those whose lives had been sacrificed because of the word of God and of the testimony which they had given.

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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