Revelation 9:1

And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

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Cross References

Isaiah 14:12How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.

Luke 10:18and he said to them, 'I was beholding the Adversary, as lightning from the heaven having fallen;

2 Thessalonians 2:3let not any one deceive you in any manner, because — if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed — the son of the destruction,

Revelation 1:18and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

Revelation 8:2and I saw the seven messengers who before God have stood, and there were given to them seven trumpets,

Revelation 8:10And the third messenger did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters,

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:1

In this chapter we have an account of the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets, the appearances that attended them, and the events that were to follow; the fifth trumpet ( ver. 1-12 ), the sixth, ver. 13, &c. . Read the whole commentary →

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