Revelation 4:2

Revelation 4:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
• New International Version (NIV)At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.
• English Standard Version (ESV)At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.

Context of Revelation 4:2

1After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will shew thee the things which must come to pass hereafter. Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne; 3and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon. 4And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.

Revelation 4:2 word by word

εὐθέως ἐγενόμην ἐν πνεύματι καὶ ἰδοὺ θρόνος ἔκειτο ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν θρόνον καθήμενος.Read the interlinear

• Iκαίkai · andG2532
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• theὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Spiritπνεῦμαpneuma · spirit/breath: spiritG4151
• beholdἰδούidou · look!G2400
• throneθρόνοςthronos · throneG2362
• setκεῖμαιkeimai · to lay/be appointedG2749
• heavenοὐρανόςouranos · heavenG3772
• sittingκάθημαιkathēmai · to sitG2521
• uponἐπίepi · upon/to/againstG1909

Cross-references for Revelation 4:2

• Revelation 1:10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet
• Revelation 17:3And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
• Revelation 21:10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and shewed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
• Ezekiel 3:12Then the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
• Revelation 4:5And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;
• Revelation 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
• Isaiah 6:1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
• Jeremiah 17:12A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
• Ezekiel 1:26And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above.
• Ezekiel 10:1Then I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was over the head of the cherubim, there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
• Revelation 4:9And when the living creatures shall give glory and honour and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth for ever and ever,
• Revelation 3:21He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.
• Revelation 5:1And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals.
• Revelation 6:16and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
• Revelation 7:9After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;
• Revelation 12:5And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne.

Commentaries on Revelation 4:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2I was in the Spirit - Rapt up in an ecstasy.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2And immediately I was in the Spirit - See the notes on Revelation 1:10. He does not affirm that he was caught up into heaven, nor does he say what impression was on his own mind, if any, as to the place where he was; but he was at once absorbed in the contemplation of the visions before him. He was doubtless still in Patmos, and these things were made to pass before his mind as a reality; that is, they appeared as real to him as if he saw them, and they…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2By being in the Spirit, John could experience spiritual realities (see Revelation 1:10; 17:3; 21:10; Ezekiel 11:1). He could understand insights about God's presence, the heavenly realm, and God's plans in history.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. And--omitted in the two oldest manuscripts, Vulgate, Syriac. I was, &c.--Greek, "I became in the Spirit" (see on Re 1:10): I was completely rapt in vision into the heavenly world. was set--not was placed, but was situated, literally, "lay." one sat on the throne--the Eternal Father: the Creator (Re 4:11): also compare Re 4:8 with Re 1:4, where also the Father is designated, "which is, and was, and is to come." When the Son, "the Lamb," is introduced…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Revelation 4

• 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