Revelation 9:13-21 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 9:13-21

Here let us consider the preface to this vision, and then the vision itself. I. The preface to this vision: A voice was heard from the horns of the golden altar, Rev. 9:13, 14. Here observe, 1. The power of the church's enemies is restrained till God gives the word to have them turned loose. 2. When nations are ripe for punishment, those instruments of God's anger that were before restrained are let loose upon them, Rev. 9:14. 3. The instruments that God makes use of to punish a people may... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 9:13-21

9:13-21 The sixth angel sounded a blast on his trumpet and I heard a voice from the four horns of the altar saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet: "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." So there came the four angels who were prepared for that hour and day and month and year, to kill a third part of the human race. The number of the armed forces of cavalry was twenty thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number, and this was how I saw in appearance... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:13

And the sixth angel sounded ,.... His trumpet: and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God ; the allusion is not to the altar of burnt offering, which was covered with brass, but to the altar of incense covered with gold; and hence here, and elsewhere, it is called "the golden altar", and was a figure of the intercession of Christ; for on this altar incense was offered, which was typical of the prayers of the saints offered by Christ, through his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:14

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet ,.... The sixth trumpet, which was given him, and he had prepared himself to sound, and had sounded: loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates ; not the four angels in Revelation 7:1 ; they stood upon the four corners of the earth; these were in, or at the river Euphrates; they held the four winds, that they should not blow, or restrained the savage nations, that they should not hurt; these are bound themselves,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:15

And the four angels were loosed ,.... The time being come, fixed by the decrees of God, making use of the Turks for the destruction of the eastern empire, the restraints of divine Providence were taken off from them, and they were suffered to pass the river Euphrates; they were let loose like so many furies, and in a little time overran and destroyed the whole empire, and settled their own, now called the Turkish or Ottoman empire; and which was done about the year 1301. Which were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:16

And the number of the army of the horsemen ,.... This shows that the four angels before mentioned were men, and design generals of armies, or armies of men, even of horsemen; and manifestly point at the Turks, who were not only originally Persians, and had their name, as some say F5 Laonic. Chalcocondylas de reb. Turc. l. 1. p. 6. , from Turca in Persia, and פרש , from whence the Persians have their name, signifies an horseman; but the armies of the Turks chiefly consisted of horse,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:17

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them ,.... In such numbers, and with horsemen on them, and in such order, and in appearance, as follows: having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth and brimstone ; which may be understood either literally of their external breastplates, which being of polished iron, according to the custom of these people, looked at a distance like sparkling fire, and seemed to be of the colour of hyacinth, or of a sky colour, and appeared as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:18

And by these three was the third part of men killed ,.... The Alexandrian copy, and some others, the Complutensian edition, the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, read, "by these three plagues": as the western Roman empire is in the preceding chapter frequently expressed by the third part of several things, see Revelation 8:7 ; so here the eastern Roman empire by the third part of men; vast numbers of the inhabitants of which were destroyed by the Turks, through the use of guns,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:19

For their power is in their mouth ,.... In what proceeded out of their mouth, or seethed to do so; in their guns, and what came out of them: and in their tails ; which may design their foot soldiers, which were as the tail to their horse, and who sometimes did great service; or their way of fighting when they fled, by casting up arrows into the air, which would fall upon the heads and horses of those that pursued them; or their ambushments, by which they destroyed many; or their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:20

And the rest of men which were not killed by these plagues ,.... By whom are meant the western antichristian party; and such of them as were not plagued, harassed, and destroyed by the Turks, as in Germany, at least some parts of it, France, Spain, Italy, &c.; yet repented not of the works of their hands : their idols, their images of saints departed, which their hands had made; the goodness of God in saving them from the depredations of the Turks, should have led them to repentance... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 9:13-21

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 9:13-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:20

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