Revelation 16:2

Revelation 16:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
• New International Version (NIV)The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
• English Standard Version (ESV)So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
• New King James Version (NKJV)So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.

Context of Revelation 16:2

1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.” So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image. 3The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died. 4Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.

Revelation 16:2 word by word

Καὶ ἀπῆλθεν ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ἐξέχεεν τὴν φιάλην αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐγένετο ἕλκος κακὸν καὶ πονηρὸν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοὺς ἔχοντας τὸ χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου καὶ τοὺς προσκυνοῦντας τῇ εἰκόνι αὐτοῦ.¶Read the interlinear

• Soκαίkai · andG2532
• the firstπρῶτοςprōtos · firstG4413
• wentἀπέρχομαιaperchomai · to go awayG565
• out his bowlφιάληphialē · bowlG5357
• on the earthγῆgē · earth: planetG1093
• and it becameγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• a loathsomeκακόςkakos · evil/harm: harmG2556
• and malignantπονηρόςponēros · evil/badG4190
• soreἕλκοςhelkos · soreG1668
• peopleἄνθρωποςanthrōpos · a humanG444
• who hadἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
• the markχάραγμαcharagma · image/markG5480
• of the beastθηρίονthērion · wild animalG2342
• and who worshipedπροσκυνέωproskuneō · to worshipG4352
• his imageεἰκώνeikōn · imageG1504

Cross-references for Revelation 16:2

• Revelation 8:7The first sounded, and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
• Revelation 14:16Then He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.
• Exodus 9:8Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
• Deuteronomy 7:15The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you.
• Deuteronomy 28:27“The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
• 1 Samuel 5:6Now the hand of the Lord was heavy on the Ashdodites, and He ravaged them and smote them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territories.
• 2 Chronicles 21:15and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.’”
• Job 2:7Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
• Psalms 78:26He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens And by His power He directed the south wind.
• Isaiah 1:5Where will you be stricken again, As you continue in your rebellion? The whole head is sick And the whole heart is faint.
• Isaiah 3:17Therefore the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs, And the Lord will make their foreheads bare.”
• Luke 16:20And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
• Acts 12:23And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Revelation 13:15And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

Commentaries on Revelation 16:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2A noisome and grievous sore - This is a reference to the sixth Egyptian plague, boils and blains, Exodus 9:8, Exodus 9:9, etc.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2And the first went - Went forth from heaven, where the seat of the vision was laid. And poured out his vial upon the earth - That is, upon the land, in contradistinction from the sea, the rivers, the air, the seat of the beast, the sun, as represented in the other vials. In Revelation 16:1, the word earth is used in the general sense to denote this world as distinguished from heaven; in this verse it is used in the specific sense, to denote land as…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The harmful sores remind us of the sixth plague in Egypt (Exodus 9:9–11). mark of the beast: See Revelation 13:13–17; 14:9–10.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. went--Greek, "went away." poured out--So the angel cast fire into the earth previous to the series of trumpets (Re 8:5). upon--so Coptic. But A, B, C, Vulgate, and Syriac read, "into." noisome--literally, "evil" (compare De 28:27, 35). The very same Greek word is used in the Septuagint as here, Greek, "helkos." The reason why the sixth Egyptian plague is the first here is because it was directed against the Egyptian magicians, Jannes and Jambres, so…Read the comment

Topics related to Revelation 16:2

• Animals
• Temple
• Vision
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Angel
• Gnaw
• Vial
• Dragon
• Grievous; Grievously; Greievousness
• Justification
• Mark
• Noisome
• Print; Printing; Printed
• Retribution

Commentaries on Revelation 16

• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings