Revelation 19:4 BSB

Revelation 19:4

And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying: “Amen, Hallelujah!”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God that sitteth on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.

KJV

And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts - See the notes on Rev 4:4, Rev 4:6-7. As representatives of the church, and as interested in its welfare, they are now introduced as rejoicing in its final triumph, and in the destruction of its last foe. Fell down - Prostrated themselves - the usual posture of worship. And worshipped God that sat on the throne - Rev 4:2-3, Rev 4:10. That is, they now adored him for what he had done in delivering the church from all its persecutions, and causing it to triumph in the world.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Accordingly they are mentioned before them, with the praise they render to God, chap. iv, 9, 10; v, 8, 14; inasmuch as there the praise moves from the center to the circumference. But here, when God's judgments are fulfilled, it moves back from the circumference to the center. Here, therefore, the four and twenty elders are named before the living creatures.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἔπεσαν	epesan	fell down	G4098 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
πρεσβύτεροι	presbuteroi	elders	G4245 →
οἱ	hoi	<the>	G3588 →
εἴκοσι	eikosi	twenty	G1501 →
τέσσαρες	tessares	four	G5064 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
τέσσαρα	tessara	four	G5064 →
ζῷα,	zōa	living creatures,	G2226 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
προσεκύνησαν	prosekunēsan	they worshiped	G4352 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
θεῷ	theō	God	G2316 →
τῷ	tō	who	G3588 →
καθημένῳ	kathēmenō	is sitting	G2521 →
ἐπὶ	epi	on	G1909 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
θρόνῳ	thronō	throne	G2362 →
λέγοντες·	legontes	saying:	G3004 →
ἀμὴν	amēn	Amen	G281 →
ἁλληλουϊά.¶	hallēlouia	Hallelujah!	G239 →

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
Psalms 41:13
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
leads to
- Psalms 72:18–19
  Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 89:52
  Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ephesians 1:3
  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
- Revelation 4:8
  And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty,…
- Revelation 5:9–14
  And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and…
Through
Psalms 72:19
And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.
leads to
- Psalms 41:13
  Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Numbers 14:21
  “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
- Matthew 6:10
  Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.