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Fifth Bowl: Darkness and Pain

10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl aon the throne of the beast, band his kingdom became full of darkness; cand they gnawed their tongues because of the pain.  
11 They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.

Sixth Bowl: Euphrates Dried Up

12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl aon the great river Euphrates, band its water was dried up, cso that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.  
13 And I saw three unclean aspirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of bthe dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of cthe false prophet.  
14 For they are spirits of demons, aperforming signs, which go out to the kings1 of the earth and of bthe whole world, to gather them to cthe battle of that great day of God Almighty.  
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Revelation 16:12

Upon the great river, the river Euphrates (epi ton potamon ton megan ton Eufrathn). The sixth trumpet brings up the river Euphrates also (Revelation 9:14), only there epi with the locative, while here epi with the accusative. Note triple use of the article ton here.

Was dried up (echranqh). First aorist (prophetic) passive of chrainw (Revelation 14:15). Cf. Zechariah 10:11.

That may be made ready (ina etoimasqh). Purpose clause with ina and the first aorist passive of etoimazw. Common verb in Rev. (Revelation 8:6; Revelation 9:7, Revelation 9:15; Revelation 12:6; Revelation 19:7; Revelation 21:2).

The way for the kings (h odov twn basilewn). Objective genitive basilewn.

That come from the sunrising (twn apo anatolhv eliou). "Those from the rising of the sun," the kings from the east (cf. Matthew 2:2) in their march against Rome. Parthia in particular resisted Rome before Trajan's day.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 16:12:

Revelation 5:8
Revelation 7:2
Revelation 9:14
Revelation 9:15
Revelation 12:6
Revelation 16:2
Revelation 21:13

 

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