Revelation 14:16 BSB

Revelation 14:16

So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

BSB

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ASV

And he that sat on the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped.

KJV

And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth,.... He put forth, and made use of that power which he had in his hand, in answer to the entreaty of the angel, the time being fully come which was fixed for this great event: and the earth was reaped; and the harvest of it was got in; reaping and harvest sometimes are used in an ill sense, and design the wrath of God, and his judgments inflicted upon men; see Isa 17:

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And he that sat on the cloud - The Saviour, Rev 14:14. Thrust in his sickle on the earth - To cut down the harvest - that is, to gather his people to himself. And the earth was reaped - So far as the righteous were concerned. The end had come; the church was redeemed; the work contemplated was accomplished; and the results of the work of the Saviour were like a glorious harvest.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἔβαλεν	ebalen	swung	G906 →
ὁ	ho	the [One]	G3588 →
καθήμενος	kathēmenos	sitting	G2521 →
ἐπὶ	epi	upon	G1909 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
νεφέλης	nephelēs	cloud	G3507 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
δρέπανον	drepanon	sickle	G1407 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ἐπὶ	epi	upon	G1909 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
γῆν,	gēn	earth,	G1093 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐθερίσθη	etheristhē	was harvested	G2325 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
γῆ.¶	gē	earth.	G1093 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
leads to
- Psalms 62:12
  and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
- 2 Corinthians 5:10
  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
- Romans 2:6
  God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
- Romans 14:12
  So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
- Jeremiah 17:10
  I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
Through
Revelation 14:19
So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:32–33
  But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
- Revelation 19:15–21
  And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath…
Through
Revelation 14:14
And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.
leads to
- Daniel 7:13
  In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Revelation

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Revelation