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Revelation 9:1
1And the fifth angel sounded [his] trumpet: and I saw a star out of the heaven fallen to the earth; and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss.
Revelation 9:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
Context of Revelation 9:1
And the fifth angel sounded [his] trumpet: and I saw a star out of the heaven fallen to the earth; and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss. 2And it opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up smoke out of the pit as [the] smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit. 3And out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them as the scorpions of the earth have power;
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Καὶ ὁ πέμπτος ἄγγελος ἐσάλπισεν, καὶ εἶδον ἀστέρα ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ πεπτωκότα εἰς τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐδόθη αὐτῷ ἡ κλεὶς τοῦ φρέατος τῆς ἀβύσσου,Read the interlinear
- fifthπέμπτοςpemptos · fifthG3991
- angelἄγγελοςaggelos · angelG32
- soundedσαλπίζωsalpizō · to sound a trumpetG4537
- sawὁράωhoraō · to see: seeG3708
- starἀστήρastēr · starG792
- heavenοὐρανόςouranos · heavenG3772
- fallenπίπτωpiptō petō · to collapseG4098
- earthγῆgē · earth: planetG1093
- givenδίδωμιdidōmi · to giveG1325
- keyκλείςkleis · keyG2807
- pitφρέαρphrear · well/abyssG5421
- abyssἄβυσσοςabussos · abyssG12
Cross-references for Revelation 9:1
- Revelation 9:12The first woe has passed. Behold, there come yet two woes after these things.
- Revelation 8:6And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves that they might sound with [their] trumpets.
- Revelation 11:14The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe comes quickly.
- Revelation 1:20The mystery of the seven stars which thou hast seen on my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. — The seven stars are angels of the seven assemblies; and the seven lamps are seven assemblies.
- Revelation 8:10And the third angel sounded [his] trumpet: and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters.
- Isaiah 14:12How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations!
- Luke 10:18And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning falling out of heaven.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because [it will not be] unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition;
- 2 Timothy 3:1But this know, that in [the] last days difficult times shall be there;
- Revelation 1:18and the living one: and I became dead, and behold, I am living to the ages of ages, and have the keys of death and of hades.
- Revelation 20:1And I saw an angel descending from the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.
- Revelation 9:2And it opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up smoke out of the pit as [the] smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.
- Revelation 17:8The beast which thou sawest was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go into destruction: and they who dwell on the earth, whose names are not written from the founding of the world in the book of life, shall wonder, seeing the beast, that it was, and is not, and shall be present.
- Revelation 20:10And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where [are] both the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for the ages of ages.
- Luke 8:31And they besought him that he would not command them to go away into the bottomless pit.
- Romans 10:7or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up Christ from among [the] dead.
Commentaries on Revelation 9:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1A star fall from heaven - An angel encompassed with light suddenly descended, and seemed like a star falling from heaven. The key of the bottomless pit - Power to inundate the earth with a flood of temporal calamities and moral evils.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1And the fifth angel sounded - See the notes on Revelation 8:6-7. And I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth - This denotes, as was shown in the notes on Revelation 8:10, a leader, a military chieftain, a warrior. In the fulfillment of this, as in the former case, we look for the appearance of some mighty prince and warrior, to whom is given power, as it were, to open the bottomless pit, and to summon forth its legions. That some such agent is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The fifth trumpet is followed by a representation of another star as falling from heaven and opening the bottomless pit, out of which come swarms of locusts. (1-12) The sixth trumpet is followed by the loosing of four angels bound in the great river Euphrates. (13-21) Verses 1-12 Upon sounding the fifth trumpet, a star fell from heaven to the earth. Having ceased to be a minister of Christ, he who is represented by this star becomes the minister of the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-12The fifth trumpet is the first of the three terrors (Revelation 8:13). It brings a judgment of locusts from the bottomless pit, a place of horror. Ancient cultures thought the ocean depths, or the Abyss, was a home for demonic forces (see study note on Genesis 1:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-211. The last three trumpets of the seven are called, from Re 8:13, the woe-trumpets. fall--rather as Greek, "fallen." When John saw it, it was not in the act of falling, but had fallen already. This is a connecting link of this fifth trumpet with Re 12:8, 9, 12, "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, for the devil is come down," &c. Compare Is 14:12, "How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning!" the bottomless pit--Greek, "the pit of the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Revelation 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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