Revelation 9:14

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.””

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BSBPD

“saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“one saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, `Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Revelation 9:14 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 2:14The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
  2. 2 Samuel 8:3David also defeated Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, who had marched out to restore his dominion along the Euphrates River.
  3. Jeremiah 51:63When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
  4. Revelation 7:1After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.
  5. Revelation 8:2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.
  6. Revelation 8:6And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
  7. Revelation 9:15So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
  8. Revelation 16:12And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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