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.
15a“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, blest he walk naked and they see his shame.”
16aAnd they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew,1 Armageddon.
Seventh Bowl: The Earth Utterly Shaken
17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, a“It is done!”
18 And athere were noises and thunderings and lightnings; band there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake cas had not occurred since men were on the earth.
19 Now athe great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And bgreat Babylon cwas remembered before God, dto give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.
20 Then aevery island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And great hail from heaven fell upon men, eachhailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.
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.
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:
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