Revelation 9:14 BSB

Revelation 9:14

saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

BSB

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ASV

one saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.

KJV

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Loose the four angels - These four angels bound - hitherto restrained, in the Euphrates, are by some supposed to be the Arabs, the Saracens, the Tartars, or the Turks; by others, Vespasian’s four generals, one in Arabia, one in Africa, one in Alexandria, and one in Palestine.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The power of the church's enemies is restrained till God gives the word to have them turned loose. When nations are ripe for punishment, those instruments of God's anger that were before restrained are let loose upon them,

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The instruments that God makes use of to punish a people may sometimes lie at a great distance from them, so that no danger may be apprehended from them. These four messengers of divine judgment lay bound in the river Euphrates, a great way from the European nations.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
λέγοντα	legonta	saying	G3004 →
τῷ	tō	to the	G3588 →
ἕκτῳ	hektō	sixth	G1623 →
ἀγγέλῳ	angelō	angel	G32 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
ἔχων	echōn	having	G2192 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
σάλπιγγα·	salpinga	trumpet;	G4536 →
λῦσον	luson	do release	G3089 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
τέσσαρας	tessaras	four	G5064 →
ἀγγέλους	angelous	angels	G32 →
τοὺς	tous	those	G3588 →
δεδεμένους	dedemenous	bound	G1210 →
ἐπὶ	epi	at	G1909 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
ποταμῷ	potamō	river	G4215 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
μεγάλῳ	megalō	great	G3173 →
Εὐφράτῃ.	Euphratē	Euphrates.	G2166 →

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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
Revelation 9:15
So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
leads to
- Revelation 9:18
  A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded from their mouths.
- Revelation 8:7
  Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the…
Through
Revelation 16:12
And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:36
  Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
Through
Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
leads to
- Daniel 10:4
  On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,
Through
Jeremiah 51:63
When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
leads to
- Revelation 18:21
  Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never…
Through
2 Samuel 8:3
David also defeated Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, who had marched out to restore his dominion along the Euphrates River.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 14:47
  After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed…
- 2 Samuel 10:16
  Hadadezer sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
- 2 Samuel 10:19
  When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help…

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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