Revelation 9:17
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| Overview - Revelation 9 | |
| 1 | At the sounding of the fifth angel, a star falls from heaven, to whom is given the key to the bottomless pit. |
| 2 | He opens the pit, and there come forth locusts like scorpions. |
| 12 | The first woe past. |
| 13 | The sixth trumpet sounds. |
| 14 | Four angels are let loose, that were bound. |
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Revelation 9:17 (King James Version)
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
- having
- This appears to point out the scarlet, blue and yellow colours, for which the Turks have always been remarkable. The "four angels bound in the Euphrates" denote their four
- sultanies bordering on that river, where they were confined till after the period of the Crusades. The time for which they were prepared, "an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year," computing a year for each day, amounts to 391 years, 15 days; and from their first conquest over the Christians, AD. 1281, to the taking of Cameniec from the Poles, A
- D. 1672,
- which was the last conquest by which their dominion was extended, is exactly that period. 9
- jacinth
- 21:20
- brimstone
- 18 ; 14:10 19:20 21:8 Genesis 19:24 ; Psalms 11:6 ; Isaiah 30:33 ; Ezekiel 33:22
- as the
- 1 Chronicles 12:8 ; Isaiah 5:28 Isaiah 5:29