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10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months.
11 And they had as king over them athe angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is1 Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name2 Apollyon.  
12 aOne woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.  

Sixth Trumpet: The Angels from the Euphrates

13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the agolden altar which is before God,  
14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound aat the great river Euphrates.”  
15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a athird of mankind.  
16 Now athe number of the army bof the horsemen was two hundred million; cI heard the number of them.  
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; aand the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.  
18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
19 For1 their power is in their mouth and in their tails; afor their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.  
20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, adid not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship bdemons, cand idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.  
21 And they did not repent of their murders aor their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. 
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Revelation 9:12

One woe is past - The woe referred to in Revelation 9:1-11. In Revelation 8:13 three woes are mentioned which were to occur successively, and which were to embrace the whole of the period comprised in the seven seals and the seven trumpets. Under the last of the seals we have considered four successive periods, referring to events connected with the downfall of the Western empire; and then we have found one important event worthy of a place in noticing the things which would permanently affect the destiny of the world - the rise, the character, and the conquests of the Saracens. This was referred to by the first woe-trumpet. We enter now on the consideration of the second. This occupies the remainder of the chapter, and in illustrating it the same method will be pursued as heretofore: first, to explain the literal meaning of the words, phrases, and symbols; and then to inquire what events in history, if any, succeeding the former, occurred, which would correspond with the language used.

And, behold, there come two woes more hereafter - Two momentous and important events that will be attended with sorrow to mankind. It cannot be intended that there would be no other evils that would visit mankind; but the eye, in glancing along the future, rested on these as having a special pre-eminence in affecting the destiny of the church and the world.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Revelation 9:12:

Revelation 10:6
Revelation 11:14

 

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