Revelation 9:11

and they have over them a king — the messenger of the abyss — a name [is] to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.

Young's Literal Translation

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 to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority [is] to injure men five months;

12The first woe did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes after these things.

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Cross References

Job 26:6Naked [is] Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.

John 12:31now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;

John 16:11and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.

Ephesians 2:2in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

1 John 5:19we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

Revelation 12:9and the great dragon was cast forth — the old serpent, who is called 'Devil,' and 'the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world — he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth 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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